History remembered at former Amherst training center site as redevelopment plans take shape

History remembered at former Amherst training center site as redevelopment plans take shape

When Madi Tyree drives past the former Central Virginia Training Center, with its sprawling 350-acre campus and 95 vacant buildings, she hears its many voices.  The Lynchburg-area native hears her grandmother, who cared for patients with developmental disabilities there in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She hears the voices of inmates who lived there during the institution’s darkest period of eugenics and forced sterilization — the period she r…