Overview

The huge influx of miners during the Gold Rush and the great pressures of living in boomtown conditions, caused a large increase in the mentally-ill population of CA. A significant number of the miners could not cope with the swindling, thievery, violence and vice going on in San Francisco and the Gold Country. By 1851, the State Legislature could not ignore the problem, and funded the creation of the Insane Asylum of California at Stockton. The institution was renamed the "Insane Asylum of the State of California" on 05/17/1853.

Building Notes

A call for suppliers's bids for provisions to the Insane Asylum of the State of California at Stockton was published in a classified newspaper ad in the Sacramento Record-Union,10/17/1893, (p. 5). The ad listed the provisions--food, clothing, dry goods and coal--needed by the facility in 1893-1894.

PCAD id: 20556