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Muscatatuck facility celebrating 100 years
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A Muscatatuck facility in Butlerville turned 100 years old Dec. 15.
Although the first patients (or as they were called at the time, inmates) arrived at what was then called the Indiana Farm Colony for the Feeble-Minded on March 30, 1920, Indiana Gov. James P. Goodrich did not declare the facility open for business until Dec. 15, 1920.
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The Aitkenhead Colony building, built in 1920, was the first patient housing building constructed on the site of the Indiana Farm Colony for the Feeble-Minded, named after William Aitkenhead, first treasurer of the board of trustees. Courtesy of Muscatatuck Museum ....

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