I believe this "Chester County Hospital for the Insane" was located northwest of West Chester at Embreeville and was later called the Embreeville State Hospital (now closed as a state mental institution but all buildings still stand). This was also the site of the early nineteenth century county poorhouse. The location is West Bradford Township.

If you are talking about Embreevile, you have to remember that it was also a TB asylum. The records for the place are in the hands of the CCHS. One of my ancestors died there. She had TB and also suffered from acute depression (I prefer to think that the depression was due to the TB.) Anyway, I got the limited number of records relating to her being there via the CCHS. Prior e-mails dealing with the hospital are in the list archives (try at least 2 years ago). Ed. -----Original Message----- From: K. Varden Leasa [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 12:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [PACHESTE] Re: Chester Co. Hospital for the Insane I believe this "Chester County Hospital for the Insane" was located northwest of West Chester at Embreeville and was later called the Embreeville State Hospital (now closed as a state mental institution but all buildings still stand). This was also the site of the early nineteenth century county poorhouse. The location is West Bradford Township. ==== PACHESTE Mailing List ==== Visit the PA GenWeb Archives at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/pafiles.htm