Harrisburg State Hospital
Harrisburg State Hospital, formerly known from 1851 to 1937 as Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was Pennsylvania's first public facility to house the mentally ill and disabled. Its campus is located on Cameron Street and Arsenal Boulevard, and operated as a mental ho
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The first State mental hospital in Pennsylvania. Opened in 1851, a result of efforts by the noted humanitarian, Dorothea Lynde Dix, to improve this State’s treatment of the mentally ill. The hospital is on the wooded hills east of this marker, overlooking the city.
Sources: Wikipedia: Harrisburg State Hospital, National Register of Historic Places (NPS), NRHP nomination file (NARA), Wikipedia.
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