 The Central Virginia Training Center is a state education facility in Madison Heights.Previously it was known as the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded where forced sterilizations were conducted, 8,300 from 1924 to 1972 on those determined to be "unfit".Carrie Buck, the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case "Buck v. Bell", was sterilized after being classified as "feeble-minded", as part of the state's eugenics program while she was a patient at the Colony.