Freedom Trail Foundation

Mental health has always been a relevant issue, and colonial communities had their own ways of caring with those whose struggles became too difficult to ignore.

Learn how Colonial Massachusetts did, or did not create systems meant to support people with mental illness like James Otis Jr. and Samuel Coolidge.

Read more in a blog post written by historian Kate LaPine at https://revolutionaryspaces.org/how-to-solve-a-problem-like-samuel-colonial-provisions-for-the-mentally-ill/