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FIPS code. 42-069-68400. Scott Township is a township in the north central area of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 4,641. [2] It is one of the five municipalities comprising the Lakeland School District. Township government consists of three elected supervisors with headquarters at ...
The Pennsylvania State Hospital System is a network of psychiatric hospitals operated by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. At its peak in the late 1940s the system operated more than twenty hospitals and served over 43,000 patients. As of 2011 fewer than nine sites remain in use, and many of those serve far fewer patients than they once did.
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.
French Azilum. Coordinates: 41.736°N 76.318°W. French Azilum (French: Asile français) was a planned settlement built in 1793 in Bradford County, Pennsylvania for French refugees fleeing the French Revolution and slave uprisings in Saint-Domingue. [1] Several influential Philadelphians, including Stephen Girard, Robert Morris and John ...
"Lost Souls of the Asylum & The Curse of the Candle Shoppe" November 22, 2009 ( 2009-11-22 ) Scott Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania was a quiet community for the owners of a software company who were looking to expand their business.
November 28, 1980. Designated PHLF. 1970 [2] 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 ...
Designated PHMC. October 7, 1987 [3] 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 St. and Arsenal Blvd, and operated as a mental hospital until 2006.
42-003-68388. Website. Township website. Scott Township is a township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 17,024 at the 2010 census.