Harrisburg State Hospital
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.
Marker is on N. Cameron Street US 22 0.2 miles north of Maclay St., on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
