Winfield, Kansas

====Institutions====
The Winfield State Hospital and Training Center, established in the community in the prior century to house and confine the [[mental illness|mentally ill]] and [[developmentally disabled]], remained as a dominant local employer throughout the 20th century.<ref name="wsh_ctnewsonline" /><ref name="council_calls" /> Towards the end of the century the (now designated "Winfield State Hospital and Training Center") housed [[developmentally disabled]] people. Social, political and legal changes, led to closing of most of the facility in 1998.<ref name="council_calls" /><ref name="disability" /><ref name="wsh_ctnewsonline" /> It was gradually turned into the Winfield Correctional Facility.<ref name="corrections">Official history timeline: [https://www.doc.ks.gov/facilities/wcf/history "WCF History."] (Winfield Correctional Facility), 2013, [[Kansas Department of Corrections]], State of [[Kansas]]</ref>

[[Southwestern College (Kansas)|Southwestern College]] grew to become a leading local institution and employer, drawing students from throughout the central United States, and bringing an extra level of intellectual and cultural development and diversity to the community.

Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Sciences<ref>[https://pigammamu.org/ Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Sciences]</ref> was founded at Southwestern College in Winfield in 1924. The international headquarters is now housed at a repurposed Carnegie Library building on Millington Street in downtown Winfield. Pi Gamma Mu is the oldest and preeminent interdisciplinary social science honor society. Its mission is to encourage and promote excellence in the Social Sciences and to uphold and nurture scholarship, leadership, and service.