Dayton State Hospital Grounds photograph   Save
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Description: Caption reads: "A striking vista seen through the evergreens surrounding the sunken gardens at the Dayton State Hospital. Hospital's big smokestack in distance." The Dayton State Hospital was founded in 1855 as the Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum. The name was later changed to the Dayton State Hospital and Mental Health Facility. It's once thousand acres and thousands of patients have been reduced to just one hundred acres and just over a hundred patients in 2008. The hospital was closed in the summer of 2008 after 153 years. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F08_007
Subjects: Hospitals--History--Ohio; Ohio Government
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)