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|Body= This institution is located in Lincoln. As early as 1865, it was found necessary to make provision for the insane in the Territory of Nebraska. Four cases were already being treated at an Iowa hospital. The legislature authorized the governor to make an arrangement with the State of Iowa by which the State of Iowa would receive and care for the insane at Nebraska's expense. Under this arrangement, fifty patients were sent to the hospital at Mount Pleasant at various times. Soon after Nebraska became a State, the governor, secretary of State, and auditor of public accounts appointed a board of commissioners to locate a site for a State lunatic asylum near Lincoln. The first building was completed for $137,000 in the fall of 1870, and the first patient was admitted on November 26th of that year. Early in the following December, seventeen patients were brought over from Mount Pleasant to the new institution, and four were admitted who had been confined in the Pawnee county jail. Dr. N. B. Larsh was the first superintendent.  [[Lincoln State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
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|Body= Opened to receive patients on November 22, 1889, the then-denoted "West Tennessee Hospital for the Insane" was designed by architect Harry P. MacDonald of Louisville, Kentucky, and Memphis, Tennessee. The MacDonald firm was responsible for many fine, large public buildings in the South, such as the Sevier County Courthouse in Sevierville, Tennessee (1896). The institution was intended not only to meet the mental health needs of the Western Section of the State, but also to complete Tennessee's first efforts at implementing a social policy initiated before the Civil War. Tennessee initiated its public policy regarding the institutionalization of the mentally ill in the 1840s. The "lunatic asylum" in Nashville soon proved inadequate, and architect Adolphus Heiman produced a Gothic Revival design following the advice of Thomas S. Kirkbride.  [[Bolivar State Hospital|Click here for more...]]
 
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Featured Article Of The Week

Bolivar State Hospital


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Opened to receive patients on November 22, 1889, the then-denoted "West Tennessee Hospital for the Insane" was designed by architect Harry P. MacDonald of Louisville, Kentucky, and Memphis, Tennessee. The MacDonald firm was responsible for many fine, large public buildings in the South, such as the Sevier County Courthouse in Sevierville, Tennessee (1896). The institution was intended not only to meet the mental health needs of the Western Section of the State, but also to complete Tennessee's first efforts at implementing a social policy initiated before the Civil War. Tennessee initiated its public policy regarding the institutionalization of the mentally ill in the 1840s. The "lunatic asylum" in Nashville soon proved inadequate, and architect Adolphus Heiman produced a Gothic Revival design following the advice of Thomas S. Kirkbride. Click here for more...

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