November 22, 2010

In 1910, the first patients were admitted to the Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium located near Booneville (Logan County). During over sixty years of operation, the sanatorium served as the relocation center for the treatment of more than 70,000 white Arkansans stricken or suspected of being stricken with the disease (there was a separate facility in central Arkansas for African Americans). The facility officially closed in 1973 and is home to the Booneville Human Development Center.