Series VI. Records Found at Eastern State Hospital, 1825-1918.

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Extent: 2 cu. ft.

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Contains correspondence, contracts, agreements, buildings and grounds records and other miscellaneous documents found during a records transfer at Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia in February 2010. According to records at Eastern State and Western State, the documents were removed from the Western State archives in 1983 and used by researchers to accurately reconstruct the Public Hospital at Colonial Williamsburg. The records were never returned to Western State and were eventually found in a basement at Eastern State in 1987. The records were taken to the Eastern State archives where they were housed until Eastern State transferred its historical records to the Library of Virginia. The records remain part of Eastern State Hospital accession 44812.

Files are split into three categories: correspondence, subject files, and volumes. Most of the records in this series pertain to buildings, construction projects, contracting for supplies and labor, and basic hospital operations.

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