Dorothea Dix
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Dorothea Lynde Dix was an American advocate on behalf of the poor mentally ill. By her vigorous and sustained program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, she helped create t
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Plaque to Dorothea Dix, Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Half-plate daguerreotype of Dorothea Dix, c. 1849
The Dorothea Dix Museum on the grounds of the Harrisburg State Hospital
Dorothea Dix Hospital
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The Dorothea Dix Hospital was the first North Carolina psychiatric hospital, located three miles southwest of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, and named after mental health advocate Dorothea Dix from
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…Dix Hill Asylum, named in honor of Dorothea Dix's father, was eventually opened in 1856. One hundred years later, the Dix Hill Asylum was renamed the Dorothea Dix Hospital, in honor of her legacy. A second state hospital for the mentally ill was authorized in 1875, Broughton State Hospital in Morganton, North Carolina…
A photo of the NCDHHS Dorothea Dix Campus in Raleigh, North Carolina. Pictured are the Hargrove Building (left) and McBryde Building (right) as viewed from Smithwick Drive.
The former Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Greenhouses at the Dorothea Dix Hospital in 1914