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When founded, it was known as the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital. Its name was changed in 1913 to Bangor State Hospital, and then to Bangor Mental Health Institute. In 2005 it was renamed the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, in honor of Dorothea Dix, a pioneering 19th-century advocate for the improved treatment of the mentally ill.
The hospital trustees made plans to approach the Maine State Legislature to request funding, as over 2/3 of the patients being admitted were from outside of Bangor, but the plans were abandoned to allow for the money to fund the construction of the Eastern Maine Insane Asylum, now the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center. Instead, it purchased the ...
Maine Savings Amphitheater: Former names: Bangor Waterfront Pavilion (2010-13) Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion (2013-2022) Address: 1 Railroad St Bangor, ME 04401 Bangor USA: Location: Waterfront Park: Owner: City of Bangor: Operator: Waterfront Concerts Live Nation: Type: Outdoor Amphitheatre, Music venue, Concert Venue, Amphitheater: Genre(s ...
The Maine Insane Hospital, later the Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI), was a psychiatric hospital in Augusta, Maine.It was the principal facility for the care and treatment of Maine's mentally ill from 1840 to 2004, and its surviving buildings represent the oldest surviving complex of mental care facilities in the United States.
Map showing Maine's 207 area code (in red) and neighboring area codes in New Hampshire (USA); New Brunswick and Quebec, (Canada) Area code 207 is the sole telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the U.S. state of Maine. Area code 207 was created as one of the original North American area codes in 1947. The numbering ...
Bounded by Garland, Essex, State, Park and Center Sts., Bangor, Maine Coordinates 44°48′18″N 68°46′05″W / 44.805°N 68.768°W / 44.805; -
Ralph W. 'Bud' Leavitt Jr. longtime columnist and editor for The Bangor Daily News. Born in Old Town, Maine, Leavitt became a cub reporter at The Bangor Daily Commercial at age 17 in 1934. Following the Second World War, Leavitt signed on with The News, where he filed, during the course of his career, 13,104 columns devoted to the outdoors, and ...
On March 30, 1820, shortly after Maine entered the Union, the District of Maine was assigned to the First Circuit and its internal circuit court jurisdiction was again repealed by 3 Stat. 554. [2] A second judgeship was authorized on October 20, 1978, by, 92 Stat. 1629 , and a third was authorized on December 1, 1990, by 104 Stat. 5089 .