This is Home

Born into a prominent Virginia family, Mary Tinsley Greenhow was just a teenager when she fell from a horse in the mid-1800s. The split second catch of her horse's hoof on a wooden bridge left the young woman with a paralyzing back injury from which she would never recover.

Mary was fortunate, in one sense, to have a family able to provide long-term care for her. Over the years she became increasingly concerned for people less fortunate and more seriously disabled than herself. Mary envisioned a place where people with physical disabilities could receive the care and companionship they needed and where their security and welfare would never be compromised -- for the rest of their lives.

Through her perseverance, The Virginia Home for Incurables was chartered and opened in 1894. Since then, The Virginia Home has undergone three changes of locale, one name change, several expansions and numerous improvements.

Today, Miss Greenhow's legacy is a modern, thriving facility -- home to 130 men and women from every corner of the Commonwealth of Virginia. More than a century after its inception, The Home remains the only facility of its kind in Virginia, a unique model for residential care of adults with disabilities.

This is Home -- This is The Virginia Home

Visit us at www.thevirginiahome.org

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