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|Body= In 1804, a building was completed in the newly incorporated City of Pittsburgh. The new building was the city's first "poor house"; it held a population of 30. In 1818, an increase in the size of the indigent population resulted in the construction of the Allegheny City Almshouse. By 1846, with the continued increase in patients, the city was scouting sites for yet another new almshouse. Roughly 150 acres were acquired along the banks of the Monongahela River at Homestead, in Mifflin township, and a three-story brick building was built to hold 300 patients. The City Poor Farm at Homestead opened in 1852, and by 1879, a separate building was erected for the treatment of the insane. With a burgeoning population and a conviction that rural settings were healthier, especially for tuberculosis patients, the city made plans to move the hospital again; this time, it would be located well outside the city boundaries. Land along the Monongahela was valuable, and the city sold its almshouse acreage to the Carnegie Steel Company for $450,000.  [[Mayview State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
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|Body= The Eastern Maine Insane Hospital was opened on July 1, 1901. It was built on a pastoral hill named 'Hepatica Hill' for its flowers overlooking the city of Bangor and the Penobscot River. Pine trees were planted around all of the driveways on the campus and have since grown to enormous sizes.
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Within five days of opening in 1901, 145 patients were transferred from the Maine Insane Hospital in Augusta to the Bangor location. Patients were generally committed to the hospital by their community peers, such as town selectmen, family, etc.  [[Bangor State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
 
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Revision as of 10:11, 21 September 2025

Featured Article Of The Week

Bangor State Hospital


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The Eastern Maine Insane Hospital was opened on July 1, 1901. It was built on a pastoral hill named 'Hepatica Hill' for its flowers overlooking the city of Bangor and the Penobscot River. Pine trees were planted around all of the driveways on the campus and have since grown to enormous sizes.

Within five days of opening in 1901, 145 patients were transferred from the Maine Insane Hospital in Augusta to the Bangor location. Patients were generally committed to the hospital by their community peers, such as town selectmen, family, etc. Click here for more...

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