The Carville Leprosarium in the 1800s. ... Now, the National Hansen’s Disease Museum in Carville can be visited, and visitors can walk through over 4,000 square feet of exhibition space.

CARVILLE, La. -- When Mary Ruth Daigle first arrived in Carville, La., in 1939, she was a patient. Today, she is a guide at the Trautman Museum, a newly expanded facility at the Gillis W. Long ...

Louisiana is home to the only national leprosarium and was the treatment site for many leprosy patients. Learn about Carville's medical history here. ... After observing the museum, ...

An exhibit at Thibodaux’s Jean Lafitte Museum shows how one man was both a patient and the chronicler of America’s first leprosy community. Carville, Louisiana, became America’s first ...

Carville, Louisiana was once home to the National Leprosarium, the only national colony for people with leprosy – also known as Hansen’s Disease – within the continental United States.

Carville looked more like a prep school than a leprosarium — but it was surrounded by a barbed wire fence By Wendy Chin-Tanner Published August 9, 2023 11:00AM (EDT) ...

CARVILLE, La. (WVUE) - For much of the last century, people who were diagnosed with leprosy -- or Hansen’s Disease -- were required to stay at a hospital in Carville, La. That is also where a ...

Louisiana is home to the only national leprosarium and was the treatment site for many leprosy patients. Learn about Carville's medical history here. Louisiana is home to the only national ...

An exhibit at Thibodaux’s Jean Lafitte Museum shows how one man was both a patient and the chronicler of America’s first leprosy community. Carville, Louisiana, became America’s first ...