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Excerpts from the annual report of the Asylum's superintendent, 1874, discussing progress on the construction of the south wing of the building, request to levy a special tax to fund further construction of the building, the need for more space at…

Excerpts from the South Carolina Department of Mental Health's annual report for the year 1882, including the report of the Building Committee discussing the completion of the north wing of the new building and move of white patients into these new…

Includes account of completed construction of "The Williams Building," in June 1932, designed to care for fifty "old and infirm white women." Physical description of the building and contract and construction dates (1931-32) all suggest that this…

Mentions the only two buildings newly constucted in 1932, one a dining room for colored women at State Park, the other for white women, with a capacity for fifty--unnamed, but probably "Williams" aka Trezevant.

Lists Trezevant among the ward buildings built for the SCSH by Robert S. LaFaye between the years 1918-1972

Report on the completion of the Williams Building in 1937, the contract for which had been drawn in 1936. This indicates that the building currently named the Williams Building is not the same as that which was constructed five years earlier in 1932…

Details of the dedication program for the Williams Reception Building, described as with a capacity for 200 beds (100 men, 100 women) and completed in 1937. More evidence that this building is not the same Williams constructed in 1932 with a capacity…

Shows workers a picture of workers in Mattress Factory. States that they are on the payroll. It is unclear if these are patients. They are renovated old mattresses instead of making new ones.

A map of the buildings and grounds at the SC State Hospital in 1954, naming "Trezevant"--showing that the building by this time had taken on its current name.

Note that they spent $35.48 on "duck remnants", aka duck feathers. Voucher is for March.