Carville is a St. Gabriel neighborhood located along the Mississippi River in Iberville Parish, and is roughly 16 miles south of Baton Rouge. Although Carville is now a residential neighborhood ...

An exhibit at Thibodaux’s Jean Lafitte Museum shows how one man was both a patient and the chronicler of America’s first leprosy community. Carville, Louisiana, became America’s first leprosy ...

The Star’s single-minded editorial objective: to knock down misconceptions about Hansen’s disease, as the 400 Carville patients call their illness—in popular parlance, leprosy.

Carville was best known for housing some 400 patients afflicted with Hansen’s disease, known at the time as leprosy. The documentary accompanied him on a visit to the leprosarium, where he ...

Although Carville is now a residential neighborhood, the area was once a location that was specifically designated to the housing of leprosy patients. From 1894 to 2005, Carville was home to the ...

An exhibit at Thibodaux’s Jean Lafitte Museum shows how one man was both a patient and the chronicler of America’s first leprosy community. Carville, Louisiana, became America’s first ...