 The operations were carried out at the institution.An estimated 8,300 Virginians were relocated to Lynchburg and sterilized there, making the city a "dumping ground" of sorts for the feeble-minded, poor, blind, epileptic, and those otherwise seen as genetically "unfit".Carrie Buck challenged the state sterilization, but it was finally upheld by the United States Supreme Court in "Buck v. Bell".