This guide includes supplemental resources for readers to explore themes of mental health: history, modern science, stigma, addiction, and mental health during covid.
Oral Histories of the American South Collection: Modjeska Simkins talks about combating poor conditions for African American patients at Palmetto State Hospital
Index identifying interments by name, race, place of birth, date of death, and cemetery for nearly 9,000 patients who were buried by the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, and the South Carolina Department of Mental Health.
The retention of historically significant buildings has driven Historic Columbia’s preservation advocacy efforts throughout the site’s redevelopment as The BullStreet District, which began in 2015.
This website is intended to present the research and analysis of the history of the Bull St. campus and to begin a public conversation about the site’s history and future as it faces redevelopment.
Nearly two centuries after it was built, the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum in Columbia is being converted into a mixed-use project known as the BullStreet District.
Down on Bull Street is a one-hour program that explores the evolution and history of the South Carolina State Hospital and its efforts to provide services to the mentally ill.