The Fairview Training Center was a state-run facility for people with developmental disabilities in Salem, Oregon, United States.
[2] They resided on a 670-acre (270 ha) compound consisting of an administration building (LeBreton Cottage),[8] a dormitory, a laundry and boiler house.
[2] In 1917, a commitment law was passed that was to standardize admissions to the institution by insuring that valuable space was used for the "feeble-minded" and not for the "insane".
[2] The eugenics legislation provided for the "sterilization of all feeble-minded, insane, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sexual perverts who are a menace to society.
[2] These activities had formerly provided all the ham, bacon, sausage, eggs, broiler chickens, and pork chops used by Fairview.
[2] In 1969, the Board of Control was dissolved and the Mental Health Division placed under the newly created Executive Department of the state government.
[10][11] Pierce Cottage, one of several buildings remaining on the former Fairview site, was gutted by a fire of suspicious origin in January 2010.
Some of the structures were named after Oregon governors, including: Young woman who disappeared from Fairview featured on the show Cold Case Files.