This is a small portion of the 2 1/2 miles of covered walks that patients travelled to get from building to building. Many were in wheelchairs because the disease had destroyed their feet and many had lost their legs to the disease.
This particular walk leads to the chapel where patients must have poured out their souls hoping for a miracle that would find a cure for them.
For a short time in the 1990's Carville housed federal prisoners who shared many of the facilities with the patients. Until then, Carville was a pristine place, well kept by the U. S. Public Health Service. Attempts to make the facility a complete federal prison were thwarted by patients and the Carville Historical Society and federal prisoners only stayed there for very few years.
One of the prisoners who was held here was Jimmy Hoffa's lawyer.