CARVILLE LEPROSARIUM
Site — Carville, Louisiana
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/carville-leprosarium-carville-louisiana/

The national leprosarium—where the patients made a town.

A site in Carville, Louisiana, Carville leprosarium is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The national leprosarium—where the patients made a town. The presences in its file go unnamed: the carville patients, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.

Carville is the only — the national leprosarium that was the mainland's sole, the 1894 Louisiana Leper Home. The patients were the activists — the 'Star' newspaper that they published, the 'Hansen's disease' that they renamed. The Daughters were the Charity — the nuns who came '96, the care that they gave.
The escape was the Early — the patient who fled to testify, the Congress that heard him. The cure was the found — the treatments that were developed, the '99 closure that's the museum. Carville is the stigma's — the isolation that was the sentence, the rights that were fought for.
The file keeps Carville: the 1894 leprosarium, the patient activism, the Daughters of Charity, and the cure.
Carville is the archive's Louisiana file — the only leprosarium.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Carville is the archive's Louisiana file — the isolated community.
A hospital keeps its patients — the file's suggestion being that Carville's hold is the activism: the 'Star' that they wrote, the name that they changed, and the cure that was found.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The patients are reportedly seen. The lore files them collectively as the Carville patients. The site in Carville, Louisiana gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. A ghost with a name outlasts a ghost without one; the reports keep it employed.
  source: Carville leprosarium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carville_Historic_District)
· [Anecdotal] apparition: Reported figures on the grounds. The site in Carville, Louisiana gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. Sources including 'Carville leprosarium' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
  source: Carville leprosarium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carville_Historic_District)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1894] The 1894 facility is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Carville leprosarium'. The date is part of the site's documented spine. It remains the site's standing claim.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Carville leprosarium — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carville_Historic_District

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