Harrisburg State Hospital

Harrisburg State Hospital is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, dedicated 1987.

N. Cameron St. (U.S. 22/230) at hospital entrance, Harrisburg

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The first State mental hospital in Pennsylvania. Opened in 1851, a result of efforts by the noted humanitarian, Dorothea Lynde Dix, to improve this State's treatment of the mentally ill. The hospital is on the wooded hills east of this marker, overlooking the city.

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1846 · Virginia (H. S. Tanner, 1846) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1847 · Virginia (H. S. Tanner, 1847) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1848 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1857 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1899 · Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Pennsylvania, 1848, covering the location of Harrisburg State Hospital, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Pennsylvania, 1848, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Harrisburg State Hospital

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