Central Virginia Training Center
Established in 1910 as the Virginia State
Epileptic Colony, the center admitted its first
patients in May 1911. The facility originally
served persons with epilepsy and began
accepting individuals with mental retardation
in 1913. Due to the new national emphasis in
the mid-1950s on mental retardation, a number
of new training and developmental programs
for individuals with mental retardation were
developed here. The facility has undergone
several name changes, and became known as
the Central Virginia Training Center in 1983.
The campus also contains a cemetery and a
number of early twentieth-century Colonial
Revival buildings.
Marker is on Colony Road (Virginia Route 210) near Wright Shop Road (County Route 622), on the right when traveling south.
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