Window of The Gate House, Harrisburg State Mental Hospital, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Known as "City on the Hill", the Harrisburg State Mental hospital was 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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