Is there a California in Chester County? Let's keep this to Chester County emails, please. I'm sure you two can email between yourselves without involving the whole list. I sure would appreciate it. Barbara in Wilmington, NC Dora Smith wrote: > Here is what I found last night on early/ > historic California insane asylums. They are > listed at > http://www.darkspire.org/asylums/stockton_ca, or > atleast the endangered ones are! > > Agnews State Hospital Santa Clara County, CA > e-mail jaclewis@pacbell.com. > > Camarillo State Hospital, Camarillo, Ventura Co, > Ca.Can't be the right one as not built until > 1936. > > Stockton State Hospital, Stockton, San Josquin > County, CA. > > Napa State Hospital, Napa, Napa County, CA. > > Highland State Hospital I couldn't find a > location, but e-mail of site owner is > asylums@altavista.net. > > Also, Atascadero State Hospital is apparently a > place California currently sends criminally > insane. I don't know how long it's been in > existence, apparently notorious but no clue of > its location or its history! It is in Atacadero, > CA - county would be a big help! So would > founding date. > > I don't know for sure that these are all the > state hospitals that would have been in existence > in 1911. > > Yours, > Dora >

Thanks, Barbara. We do seem to be straying off-topic a bit too often lately here. Let's keep focused a bit closer to our area, please, folks. And while we're on that subject, let's please stop cross-posting to both this list and the Delaware County list as well; we've already seen how confusing that can be. While there are times that both lists should receive the post, the vast majority of these recent cross-posts should have been directed at only one of the lists. Also, PLEASE, let's be a bit more careful with the cutting and pasting from HTML. We're seeing an enormous amount of extraneous HTML type content in some recent posts that increases the size of these posts way beyond where they should be. If you're not sure how a post will look when it goes out to the list, try sending it to yourself first to see if it includes a bunch of weird excess stuff, like "%" and so on. If it does, please clean it up before sending it out to the entire list. The main reason this list has the option set to have replies go to the original sender by default rather than the entire list is to give us all a moment to reflect on our posts before sending them to the whole list. Please evaluate your posts, folks, before hitting send, and ask yourself if what you're saying is related to our area or not. Does it add to the discussion in some way? Will others benefit from the post? If not, please send it privately. This is a very large mailing list, with over 600 members. We need to keep this in mind, and not treat this list as a very large chat room. Let's get back on track a bit and concentrate on Chester county genealogy. Be gentle with each other. Off on a different topic, though related: I've just updated the Cemeteries section of the Chester County Genealogy site (http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacheste/chetgrav.htm) so that each page now displays 25 records at a time rather than trying to pull in all the records at once. I know some folks have had problems with some of the larger cemeteries listings, so hopefully that difficulty is now history. If you see a cemetery listed that doesn't have address information and you have that address, please let me know so I can update the database. Or if you know of a cemetery that is not listed and can provide address and denomination information, please send that to me as well. I'm also interested in Church addresses, for anyone who can add to our knowledge there as well. Thanks for listening, gang. -Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: Barbara McCormick <bjmac@wilmington.net> To: <PACHESTE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [PACHESTE] Insane asylums > Is there a California in Chester County? Let's keep this to Chester > County emails, please. I'm sure you two can email between yourselves > without involving the whole list. I sure would appreciate it. > > Barbara > in Wilmington, NC > > > Dora Smith wrote: > > > Here is what I found last night on early/ > > historic California insane asylums. They are > > listed at > > http://www.darkspire.org/asylums/stockton_ca, or > > atleast the endangered ones are! > > > > Agnews State Hospital Santa Clara County, CA > > e-mail jaclewis@pacbell.com. > > > > Camarillo State Hospital, Camarillo, Ventura Co, > > Ca.Can't be the right one as not built until > > 1936. > > > > Stockton State Hospital, Stockton, San Josquin > > County, CA. > > > > Napa State Hospital, Napa, Napa County, CA. > > > > Highland State Hospital I couldn't find a > > location, but e-mail of site owner is > > asylums@altavista.net. > > > > Also, Atascadero State Hospital is apparently a > > place California currently sends criminally > > insane. I don't know how long it's been in > > existence, apparently notorious but no clue of > > its location or its history! It is in Atacadero, > > CA - county would be a big help! So would > > founding date. > > > > I don't know for sure that these are all the > > state hospitals that would have been in existence > > in 1911. > > > > Yours, > > Dora > > > > > > > ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== > Visit the PA GenWeb Archives at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/pafiles.htm > > > > >