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Old 10-11-2016, 02:55 PM
 
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What's the story on this place?
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Old 10-11-2016, 07:19 PM
 
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The Wallace place? My MIL used to work there. I think she retired from it.

The biggest horror stories were of the kids dumped there by their "families" and pretty much lef to rot.
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Old 10-14-2016, 03:58 PM
 
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@ justacoolguy do you mean the Lurleen B. Wallace Mental Health Center? If so, it was supposed to have been transferred to the National Guard for use as a training facility per this al.com article Bentley announces transfer of Decatur's Wallace Center, empty for 10 years, to National Guard for training facility | AL.com. In the 90s it was a decent facility for mentally ill people.
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Old 10-17-2016, 11:54 PM
 
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I believe you're talking about the hospital at the top of the hill. The hospital started out as a tuberculosis sanitorium back in the 1950s. Later it became a hospital for the mentally ill. It was never an "insane asylum" like Bryce Hospital in Tuscaloosa.
It's closed....end of story.

The Lurleen B. Wallace Mental Health Center, right next door, was home for developmentally disabled people - children and adults. It closed several years ago and, yes, has been transferred to the Alabama National Guard, which so far has done very little with it.
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