The Michigan State Home for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic opened in 1895. It went through several name changes before closing in 1990, including the Michigan Home and Training School, the Lapeer State Home and Training School and the Oakdale Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities. It was locally known as the State Home. The location was a half mile west of Lapeer city.

From the 1906 Standard atlas of Lapeer County, Michigan

Links

US Census listings of employees and inmates: 1900    1910    1920
Article from 2012 in the County Press
Asylum Projects article and image gallery
Report of the Board of Control:    1896    1898    1902
Oakdale: The Lapeer State Home (2014) by Laura Fromwiller and Jan Gillis
19-minute video: A Wind is Rising (1962)
False imprisonment, sterilization and murder, oh my!
Detour Through History blog post
Article from 1893 about site selection

The records are kept at the The Archives of Michigan in Lansing. They may be hard to get. See this
Thread from the Lapeer County Message Board