Our History
The Arkansas State Lunatic Asylum, c.1890
The main building of the Arkansas State Lunatic Asylum, Little Rock. Predecessor to the Arkansas State Hospital, c. 1890. Photo courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System.
First Medical Director of the Arkansas Lunatic Asylum, c. 1885
Chastine Caldwell Forbes, the first medical director of the Arkansas Lunatic (later the Arkansas State Hospital), c. 1885. Courtesy of the UAMS Library's Historical Research Center.
The Arkansas State Hospital
The Arkansas State Hospital campus, Little Rock, c. 1910s. Initially called the Arkansas State Lunatic Asylum. Photo courtesy of the Arkansas History Commission.