Muscatatuck State School Part Two

A history and timeline of the Muscatatuck State School, also known as the Indiana Colony for Feeble Minded Youths. Founded in 1919, it officially opened in 1920.
Part Three will be dedicated to the Indiana Eugenic's Law

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• Muscatatuck
• State
• School
• Indiana
• Colony
• Feeble
• Minded
• Youth
• Institutions
• Institute
• asylum
• insane
• insanity
• Butlerville
• 1919
• 1920
• mental
• disorders
• Midnight
• Syndicate

[itzmetony66]

very informing

[debmartin64]

@itzmetony66 Thank you :)

[paranorma1palace]

colony for feeble minded youths huh, we need some of them here :)

cool vid, cheers deb

[debmartin64]

@paranorma1palace Thanks, Vin :)

[hwy61media]

The images make the facility look sanitized, almost wholesome. I wonder what it was like when there were no cameras there. Lobotomies were common well past the mid twentieth century and I would think that a facility such as Muscatatuck might have had a place in that history. Great work Deb :)

[debmartin64]

@hwy61media Thank you, Michael.

I was so limited on what I could find about the place, seems like a lot of history was erased.

Deb

[MsAmanda1031]

first off let me tell you i thought your video was great second of all i know some about this horrible place it was not a good place for anyone to be..the workers were mean to the clients they were chained to benches so that they didnt have to be dealt with they had their teeth 4 on top and bottom all in the front so the cleints couldnt bite anyone. my email address is bridges_1980@yahoo,com please feel free to contact me and i will tell you more....thanks so much and again great job

[MsAmanda1031]

@debmartin64 i just watched your video on muscatatuck and i thought it was very good...i just wanted to tell you that i work at a place for disabled and handicapped people and alot of our consumers came from muscatatuck. you will not find much info on this horrible place we go through a 2 week training and have watched a video and had to look at a book with pictures of real people that were here....the state made people believe that this was a good place for anyone that wasn't "normal"...

[northvilletunnels]

Eugenics was a common method at state run youth homes.