If someone hasn't already mentioned it, there was a major inebriate asylum in Binghamton, New York. See Turner, J. Edward, _The History of the First Inebriate Asylum in the World_. (New York: Arno Press, 1981). This text is a reprint of the 1888 text. See also, New York State Inebriate Asylum, _Ceremonies, etc_ (1859). This book is about the ceremonies at the laying of the asylum's cornerstone and includes the charter and some correspondence. For complete citations, login to the New York Public Library's on-line catalog (nyplgate.nypl.org -- login as nypl). As long as I'm writing to the list, I'll toss out my introduction as well. My name is Joseph Luders. I'm a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. My MA thesis -- "Collective Action and Political Economy: The Prohibition Movement in the United States, 1869-1919" -- combines (as the title suggests) contemporary collective action and political economic approaches to account for spatial and temporal variations in the development of the prohibition movement. Joseph Luders [log in to unmask]