St. Louis Forensic Treatment Center - South

Beginnings and Early MissionOn April 23rd, 1869, the 300 bed St. Louis County Insane Asylum opened its doors, admitting on its first day 127 patients transferred by wagon train from an over-crowded state hospital in Fulton and 80 from the County Poor Farm. The Asylum was the second in the State, the first being Fulton State Hospital, which opened its doors in 1851, and was notable for not being just first in Missouri, but the first psychiatric hospital west of the Mississippi.