There was a discussion of the Watertown State Mental Hospital on this List about 2-3 months ago. From the ILROCKIS archives I have pulled up the following message. Hope this helps although you may have to review the other messages also. Nomie CNIDR Isearch-cgi 1.20.06 (File: 134) ============================================================ Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 09:33:27 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991104093327.007da740@townsqr.com> Subject: [ILROCKIS-L] East Moline Mental Hospital >At the IL State Archives, there is a Record Group: Record Group 262.000 - 262.012 Illinois Western Hospital for the Insane Watertown State Hospital East Moline State Hospital East Moline Mental Health Center (all headings for this one record group) Caution: I don't know if you could see any of these records or not. They may be resticted because case files, escapes, correspondence, are included. < >Explore at this site - address and phone number are there: http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/arc_home.html **************** From: DblD118@aol.com Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 04:13:18 EST Subject: Re: [ILROCKIS-L] Resthaven Cemetery >Is there a book or any information on the East Moline Mental Hospital? < - ---------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Hanson (ABIA) <barb@abia.com> To: ILROCKIS-L@rootsweb.com <ILROCKIS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, January 20, 2000 10:46 AM Subject: RE: [ILROCKIS-L] Re: ILROCKIS-D Digest V00 #12 > I looked on the Internet... at one time there was an Asylum called the >Watertown Asylum in the East Moline area. All I could find was a listing, >no information. I remember it being called East Moline State Hospital, but >don't know if that was an official name or not. > >==== ILROCKIS Mailing List ==== >Keep an eye on this census site because more census' are going up every >day. >http://www.usgenweb.org/census/states.htm > > >==== ILROCKIS Mailing List ==== >Difference between ILROCKIS-L and ILROCKIS-D: >ILROCKIS-L mailing list allows you to receive every posting made to ILROCKIS as a separate email. >ILROCKIS-D mailing list allows you to receive several postings as a single large message. >