Lakin State Hospital
Lakin State Hospital for the Colored Insane — later called simply Lakin State Hospital — was a publicly-funded psychiatric hospital located along West Virginia West [Virginia Route 62|Route 62] in Lakin, [West Virginia|Lakin], Mason County, West Virginia near Point Pleasant. It operated for 53 years from 1926 until 1979.
During segregation and Jim Crow, the asylum was designated by the State of West Virginia to care for the "colored insane". It would become one of only two known psychiatric institutions that was entirely run by people of color serving an all black population.