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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 ...
Mayview State Hospital was a psychiatric hospital, originally known as Marshalsea Poor Farm, located in South Fayette Township near Bridgeville, Pennsylvania. It spanned 335 acres (136 ha) and had 39 buildings, 12 of which were used for patient care and hospital administration.
The gates on Toad Road, as they stand today. The Seven Gates of Hell is a modern urban legend regarding locations in York County, Pennsylvania. [1] Two versions of the legend exist, one involving a burnt insane asylum and the other an eccentric doctor.
Before the volunteers started the project, the cemetery has become became overgrown and was mostly forgotten, apart from a misspelled sign that read “Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetary 1891 ...
Pennhurst State School and Hospital, originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic was a state-run institution for mentally and physically disabled individuals of Southeastern Pennsylvania located in Spring City. [4] After 79 years of controversy, it closed on December 9, 1987. [5]
For a century, it was known as the Northern Michigan Asylum for the Insane, the state's largest mental institution. According to The New York Times , it once housed as many as 3,000 patients.
Metropolitan Police officers investigating a public order offence has launched an appeal to find two women who were seen wearing images of paragliders at a pro-Palestine march in London on Saturday.