Carville, Louisiana - Old State Leprosarium Museum
- Address:
- 5445 Point Clair Rd, Carville, LA
- Directions:
- National Hansen's Disease Center, on dead-end LA 141, 1 mi W of Carville, make R at 2nd gate.
- Admission:
- Free.
- Hours:
- Tu - Sa 10am - 4pm. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 225-642-1950
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The National Hansen's Disease Museum is a historical museum in Carville, Louisiana at the site of a former sugar plantation and leprosy hospital.
Exiled on a former plantation made into a hospital, a makeshift government town made a life for those who were not allowed to ever mix with the outside world.
The hospital closed in 2000, with only a handful of lifelong patients still in residence. [Bob Pearce, 06/01/2009]
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