On November 30, 1893, the state-run Asylum for Epileptics and Epileptic Insane opened. Later it would become the Gallipolis Developmental Center, which is still operational today serving 52 patients with developmental disabilities in the Appalachian Ohio region. In June 2019, it was announced that the GSI, the mental ward asylum for the criminally insane, would be closed permanently and those inmates would be moved north to Pomeroy, Ohio to be placed in private households. The remaining grounds buildings are in talks to become either a branch campus of Ohio State University or Ohio University.