Central Virginia Training Center

Central Virginia Training Center is a Virginia historical marker in Amherst County, dedicated 2002.

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Established in 1910 as the Virginia State Epileptic Colony, the center admitted its first patients in May 1911. The facility originally served persons with epilepsy and began accepting individuals with mental retardation in 1913. Due to the new national emphasis in the mid-1950s on mental retardation, a number of new training and developmental programs for individuals with mental retardation were developed here. The facility has undergone several name changes, and became known as the Central Virginia Training Center in 1983. The campus also contains a cemetery and a number of early twentieth-century Colonial Revival buildings.

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1889 · Virginia and West Virginia (eastern portion). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1892 · Lynchburg, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Central Virginia 1864-1865. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1905 · Map of West Virginia showing railroads and county products (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1919 · State of West Virginia and part of Maryland (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)

Virginia and West Virginia (eastern portion), 1889, covering the location of Central Virginia Training Center, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Virginia and West Virginia (eastern portion), 1889, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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