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Dixmont State Hospital (originally the Department of the Insane in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh [3]) was a hospital located northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1862, Dixmont was once a state-of-the-art institution known for its highly self-sufficient and park-like campus, but a decline in funding for state ...
Hollidaysburg State Hospital: Hollidaysburg: 1938: 369: 1947: n/a: closed 1979: Cottage: originally opened in 1904 as Blair County Hospital for Mental Diseases Lawrence Frick State Hospital: Cresson: 1916: closed 1984, repurposed: Cottage: now a correctional facility Marcy State Hospital: Pittsburgh: 1915: closed 1982: Cottage Mayview State ...
In 1916, Marshalsea was renamed Pittsburgh City Home and Hospital at Mayview. By 1934, there were 4,200 patients and 450 staff at Mayview. On June 1, 1941, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania took over responsibility for the hospital. There were 3,200 patients at that time. In 1946, an observation unit was created. In 1974, it became the forensic ...
Dixmont State Hospital: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Demolished 2005 80003401 [57] 1863 Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: Weston, West Virginia: Inactive Formerly known as Weston State Hospital 78002805 [58] 1865 Mount Pleasant State Hospital: Mount Pleasant, Iowa: Destroyed 1936 Original Kirkbride building destroyed in fire — [59] [60] 1866 St ...
More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.
The Pennsylvania Reform School, originally known as the House of Refuge of Western Pennsylvania, was established in 1850 as a reform school for delinquent children from the local area. Initially located on the north shore of the Ohio River, the school relocated in 1872 to Morganza, an area northeast of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, in Washington ...
MORE: Insane asylum cemetery project progressing. The effort drew a lot of help from people in the community, including Lawrence University Professor Peter Peregrine, who took his anthropology ...
The first patient received at the asylum, Edward Hedges, arrived on December 30, 1902, though he was described as an inmate. The second patient, named Hon sah sah hah, of the Osage people of ...