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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23V9_administration-building-u-s-public-health-service-hospital-carville_Carville-LA.html
Indian Camp Plantation, Henry Howard, Architect, Built 1859, Wood, Masonry & Steel, Sq.Ft. 17,042Facing River Road in a prominent position at the entrance to the grounds is Indian Camp Plantation, the most important single architectural feature of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YWQ_cage-door-of-harry-t-chimpanzee_Carville-LA.html
Harry was a "bull" chimp (alpha male). His importance in Laboratory Research was that his blood was used to make an extract called transfer factor that was given to patients. His "official" designation was a special study case "Harry T. Chimpanzee…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YV4_triumph-at-carville-a-tale-of-leprosy-in-america_Carville-LA.html
In 1894, The Louisiana Leper Home was established at an abandoned plantation south of Baton Rouge, near a town eventually known as Carville. That November, the first seven patients, transferred from a "pest house" in New Orleans, arrived on a coal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YV2_the-daughters-of-charity_Carville-LA.html
In 1895, the Louisiana Leper Home Board of Control needed to secure nursing services for the first patients. They approached a Catholic nursing order with the promise of furnishing sleeping and living arrangements. The Daughters of Charity of St. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YUZ_the-star_Carville-LA.html
The Sixty-six STAR was born in 1931, with Stanley Stein as its editor. The name was selected by Carville patient and Texas pharmacist, Stanley Levyson (AKA Stanley Stein). It was first published as a mimeograph sheet dealing with hospital activiti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1UVP_staff-housing-u-s-public-health-service-hospital-carville-historical_Carville-LA.html
The original on-site staff housing began when the Daughters of Charity arrived in April of 1896 to care for the leprosy patients. They lived in the old plantation, indian Camp.When the U.S. Public Health Service officers took operational control o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MO4_indian-camp-plantation_Carville-LA.html
The plantation home, built in the 1850s, became the site of the Louisiana State Leprosarium in 1894. The U.S. Public Health Service acquired it in 1921. It is now known as the National Hansen's Disease Center.