The majority were originally patients of North Texas State Hospital Vernon Campus but were moved here because the state determined they needed a longer stay in mental healthcare, while also not being obviously harmful to others.
[2] The property, purchased by the State of Texas in 1935, previously served as other healthcare facilities before 1951.
From 1935 until a few years later, it served as a state treatment center for black people with tuberculosis.
[3] In 1951 it opened as a Kerrville branch of a state mental hospital located in San Antonio.
[3] Originally it only served residents of specific counties in the Texas Hill Country.