AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services. Division of Substance Use and Mental Health. State Hospital

SERIES: 11894
TITLE: Murdock Academy property survey report
DATES: 1926.
ARRANGEMENT: None.

DESCRIPTION: This series contains a 26-page typescript report describing the condition of the former Fort Cameron / Murdock Academy property located just east of Beaver City. The Academy had closed in 1922 and the owners of the property had offered the it to the State of Utah for use as a state institution for the "feebleminded" or as a branch of the State Hospital. Fred W. Taylor, assistant physician at the State Hospital, visited the property in August 1926 to evaluate the suitability of the property for a State Hospital facility and created the report based on his observations. The report covers such topics as the historical background of the property, current ownership, water supply, property location and access, description of buildings on the property, and suitability of the buildings for hospital use. Included in the report are a number of hand-drawn maps of the property and a series of black and white photographs. Records which document an agency's history. Includes scrapbooks, photographs, articles, program notes and information about events and programs sponsored or funded by an agency. May also include narrative audio and audiovisual agency histories.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

AUTHORIZED: 02/27/2003

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This series has permanent historical value as documentation of the federal military facility at Fort Cameron, the LDS Church's Murdock Academy, and the process used by the State of Utah to determine whether or not to acquire the property for use as a branch of the State Hospital.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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