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Somerset State Hospital: Somerset: 1938: 463: 1947: n/a: closed: cottage: Began as county poor farm. Is now converted to a Correctional facility South Mountain Restoration Center: Mont Alto: 1907: 1100: 1970: active: cottage: also known as Samuel G. Dixon State Hospital Torrance State Hospital: Derry Township: 1919: 3300: 1950s: 229 (2008 ...
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.
Mercer, Pennsylvania: Motivational Bootcamp – Quehanna: Karthaus Township, Pennsylvania: Co-ed and six-month duration State Correctional Institution – Waymart: Waymart, Pennsylvania: Originally part Farview State Hospital. Has Forensic Treatment Unit & houses inmates with mental disorders who require inpatient psychiatric care and treatment.
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]
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.
In the late 1830s, the managers of Pennsylvania Hospital began erecting a large asylum to replace the hospital's crowded insane wards at 8th and Spruce Streets. The 101-acre (41 ha) site chosen was a former farm in the as-yet unincorporated district of West Philadelphia .
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 ...
Wernersville State Hospital, founded in 1891 [1] as the State Asylum for the Chronic Insane, [2] is one of six state hospitals in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The hospital is operated by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services ' Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS).