Dix Hospital, Raleigh (labeled 'Lunatic Asylum')
About this map
Inset illustration in C. Drie, "Bird's eye view of the city of Raleigh, North Carolina 1872."
- Date created
- 1872
- License
- This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
- Source
- Original image housed by Library of Congress
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- North Carolina in the New Nation: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the early national period (1790–1836). Topics include the development of state government and political parties, agriculture, the Great Revival, education, the gold rush, the growth of slavery, Cherokee Removal, and battles over internal improvements and reform. (Page 11.7)
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- Search LEARN NC for Dorothea Dix Hospital, North Carolina, Raleigh, and Wake County.
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