Posted by: Naaman
This building sits on what was originally known as the Cherokee Plantation. The plantation was owned by a wealthy southern industrialist, Robert Jemison. The first Alabama Insane Hospital was built in 1861. The name was changed in 1900 after its first superintendent to Bryce Hospital. With the end of the Civil War and the pressures of segregation looming, the number of African American patients increased dramatically at Bryce Hospital. In the 1920s, Bryce Hospital became segregated and this building, the Jemison Mental Institution, was built to house the increasing numbers of African-American mentally insane.
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