Michigan State Asylum may refer to any number of early mental institutions in the state. Michigan became a state in 1837 and five years later it was accepted that caring for the mentally afflicted was a state problem. In 1848 a joint resolution required an annual return from the adviser of the number of insane , deaf , dumb , and blind people in the state. In that same year the legislature set aside 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) of land for buildings, next year nearly double that amount, and in 1850, 16,000 acres (6,500 ha). Not until 1853 was money, $ 20,000, appropriated out of the general fund of the state treasury. Many hospitals/prisons have been referred to as "Michigan State Asylum" . There were once 16 State-operated psychiatric facilities in Michigan. Between 1987 and 2003 Michigan closed three quarters of its 16 state psychiatric facilities. Here is a partial list.
6-481: The large hospital complex in Nankin Township called Eloise was not a Michigan State Asylum. It was founded as a poor house and farm in 1839 and grew into a large hospital complex. At one time there was a T.B. Sanitarium on the grounds which was phased out in 1923. Wayne County was the only one of Michigan's 83 counties that operated a psychiatric hospital, a general hospital, and an infirmary division all at
12-554: The American Revolution. Bucklin Township included what are now the cities of Westland , Livonia , Garden City , Inkster , Wayne , Dearborn , Dearborn Heights and Redford Township . In 1829, it was proposed that Bucklin Township be divided into Lima and Richland. Due to name conflicts under territorial law prohibiting duplication of post office names, the bill was amended; Lima was renamed Nankin Township , after
18-461: The Chinese city Nanking , and Richland was renamed Pekin Township , after Peking . In 1833 Pekin was renamed Redford Township, and its southern portion was subsequently set off as Dearborn Township. In 1834 Plymouth Township's southern portion became Canton Township , named after Canton , Imperial China . In 1835, Livonia Township (now the city of Livonia) was split off from Nankin. There
24-466: The same place. Michigan's three remaining State-operated in-patient psychiatric facilities are: This article relating to a hospital in Michigan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nankin Township, Michigan Nankin Township is a former township of Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan . It was bordered on the north by Joy Road, the east by Inkster Road,
30-576: The south by Van Born Road, and the west by Hannan Road. Three Algonquin tribes - Potawatomi, Ojibwa, and Ottawa - met each year on the middle fork of the Rouge River at the site of Nankin Mills to establish hunting territories. "Bucklin Township" was first organized in 1827, named in honor of Joseph Bucklin, who in 1772 fired a musket and severely wounded a British Royal Navy captain in the first intentional and planned attack on English military forces in
36-608: Was a post office called East Nankin beginning in 1857. Garden City, Inkster, and Wayne then incorporated from land either partially or wholly within Nankin Township. The remainder of the township incorporated as the city of Westland , effective May 16, 1966. The city took its name from the recently completed Westland Center at Wayne and Warren roads, and was the fourth largest city in Wayne County when it incorporated. This Wayne County, Michigan location article
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