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So when was the Williamsburg Asylum built? Can you give references
for this and the Richmond prison?
Thanks,
suzanne
>Lyle Browning wrote:
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>>snips happen<
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>>what got the ball rolling with Berkeley was the somewhat arrogant
>>insistence on that typically American need to demonstrate "firstness" of the
>>New Englanders, not the Pilgrim mythology with which I agree with
>>Eric that the
>>Pilgrim/Puritan images predominate. Lots of firsts are steamrolled
>>by the later
>>arrivals.
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>Lyle's right.
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>Yesterday, on NPR, some Philadelphia intellectual repeated the erroneous
>claim that the "first penitentiary in America" is located there.
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>Sorry.
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>Latrobe's Virginia penitentiary at Richmond was already a quarter-century
>old when the Philadelphia prison was built. But Virginia had the decency to
>demolish the first penitentiary in America after it became obsolete. So
>Philadelphia is left with a crumbling old dungeon that until recently
>housed prisoners.
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>That's not the only Yankee false claim of primacy.
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>I am constantly annoyed by claims that New England mental hospitals were
>"first," as in the Discovery of the Asylum. I suppose they never heard of
>the one in Williamsburg, which has been reconstructed as a gallery.
>
>Silly Northern claims of primacy generally result from the fact that Yankee
>schoolmasters controlled the market for history textbooks during the
>Federal period.
>
>Ned Heite
>Delawarean by birth
>Virginian by curious accident
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> Ned Heite ([log in to unmask])
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