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Brief history with dates of construction of Mills, Babcock, and Canteen (completed March 18, 1949)

"A dining room scuffle between white and Negro Patients at the South Carolina Mental Hospital had 'racial overtones,' the institution's superintendent said Thursday." This fight occurred with two African American male patients and several hundred…

In caring for the mentally ill in SC, Dr. Hall states, "doing everything possible to keep a prospective patient out of the (state mental) hospital." He goes on to explain that community programs for the mentally ill and a supportive family home life…

"One of the many growing problems at the state mental institutions is adequate housing for under-18 children and over-65 men and women." Many children are mixed with "chronically ill adult patients" and the 800 patients over the age of 65 "are housed…

Palmetto Variety newsletter article about Church Volunteer Services. This story predates the building of the chapel and shows the religious connection between the city and the hospital.

The contents of the chapel's cornerstone includes several historical documents and religious text illustrating the intent for the chapel to be a multi-denominational facility.

Special coverage from the Palmetto Variety hospital newsletter highlights the long history of religion at the South Carolina State Hospital and the building of the Chapel of Hope.

A letter from the Senior Surgeon of the Mental Hygiene Division about his visit to the site in March.

Shows the basement windows on the central back pavilion, and the juncture of this pavilion with the northern corridor leading to the northern pavilion.

Superintendent William S. Hall shovels soil at the Chapel of Hope groundbreaking ceremony while J. Rupert McGregor, Chairman of the Committee for the Chapel Fund and C. M. Tucker, Chairman of the S.C. Mental Health Commission look on.