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Welcome
to City on the Hill, a
website dedicated to the first
public insane asylum in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Founded on April 14, 1845, the
hospital was originally known as the
Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital
and Union Asylum for the Insane.
Later the name was shortened to just
Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital,
and eventually it was changed again
to Harrisburg State Hospital. The
hospital served 12 surrounding
counties, which at the time of it's
founding, had a population of
926,452 in an area of 8,000 square
miles. The facility provided over
150 years of service to
Pennsylvania's mentally ill, until
January of 2006, when it was closed.
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Administration Building.
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