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|1=April 2, 2010 [http://www.wolo.com/article.php?id=2844&page=index Hidden Columbia: The S.C. State Hospital]
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|1=February 7, 2016 [http://www.nonpareilonline.com/news/local/clarinda-struggles-to-fill-former-hospital/article_5a2612fa-10ff-5047-9f59-080d06bf58b7.html Clarinda struggles to fill former hospital]
|2=For over a year, the requests have been coming in for Hidden Columbia to tell the story of the old state mental hospital. Part one of a series of Hidden Columbia's opens the door to that story.  To see how and why [[South Carolina State Hospital]] was founded, click on the story in the video viewer...
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|2=The 128-year-old former mental health institute in the small southwest Iowa city of Clarinda isn’t your typical real estate opportunity, and so far no one is rushing to move in. More than seven months after the state closed the Clarinda Mental Health Institute, much of the sprawling building remains empty, including entire floors that haven’t been used in decades.
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|1=March 24, 2010 [http://www.wfmz.com/news/22948552/detail.html Allentown State Hospital Public Meeting]
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|1=February 1, 2016 [http://www.pjstar.com/article/20160201/NEWS/160209955 Efforts continue to preserve other parts of former Peoria State Hospital grounds]
|2=Wednesday night Allentown officials and residents expressed their frustration with the state's decision to close the [[Allentown State Hospital]]. The state says it's about the bottom line, but some city council members are worried the state hospital closure will affect much more.
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|2=Christina Morris happily remembers Sunday morning breakfasts with her grandparents, followed by visits to the peaceful cemeteries on the grounds of the Peoria State Hospital, where some family members are buried. “My interest with the state hospital started when I was about 7 years old,” Morris said in a recent interview. “When I would come onto the grounds (my grandfather) would say that this was a place of special people. (By special) I thought he meant giants, because these buildings were so big and beautiful and immaculate to me. I just was enamored by how beautiful it was.
 
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|1=March 13, 2010 [http://www.theday.com/article/20100313/NWS01/303139921/1019&town= Preston takes over at hospital site]
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|2=A year ago, the town took possession of the former [[Norwich State Hospital]] property from the state for $1, with the agreement that the state would pay for security, insurance and maintenance for a full year. On Friday, the state assistance ended and the Preston Redevelopment Agency will now take charge of the 390-acre property.
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|1=January 7, 2016 [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sterilization-united-states_568f35f2e4b0c8beacf68713?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%2BVoices&section=latino-voices That Time The United States Sterilized 60,000 Of Its Citizens]
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|2=Not too long ago, more than 60,000 people were sterilized in the United States based on eugenic laws. Most of these operations were performed before the 1960s in institutions for the so-called “mentally ill” or “mentally deficient.” In the early 20th century across the country, medical superintendents, legislators, and social reformers affiliated with an emerging eugenics movement joined forces to put sterilization laws on the books.
 
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|1=March 10, 2012 [http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=141574&catid=3 Milledgeville's [[Central State Hospital]] Changes Role, Decays from Disuse]
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|2=The campus is sprawling and mostly empty. Huge old hospital buildings with segregation-era labels like "white male receiving building" are rapidly decaying from disuse.  The empty buildings are gothic, moldering monuments to a time when this place housed and treated the desperately ill - and filled other, less noble purposes.
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|1=January, 6, 2016 [http://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/harrisburg_state_hospital_site.html Pa. hires firm to develop plan for Harrisburg State Hospital site]
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|2= Harrisburg, PA-The state has hired a Lancaster planning company to help it figure out what to do with the former [[Harrisburg State Hospital]], which closed 10 years ago. Since closing in 2006, the hospital complex has housed state workers from the state police, Department of General Services and the Department of Human Services. It is now part of the larger DGS Annex property, which encompasses 303 acres across Harrisburg and Susquehanna Township.
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|1=March 9, 2010 [http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=203268 Wernersville State Hospital preparing for Allentown patients]
 
|2=[[Wernersville State Hospital]] is preparing two new units to accommodate the transfer of up to 65 patients from the recently closed [[Allentown State Hospital]].
 
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|1=March 6, 2010 [http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100306/NEWS/3060324/1001 Demolition of former rehabilitation facility begins]
 
|2=Demolition work started Friday on a 73-year-old building on the [[Oregon State Hospital]] campus
 
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|1=March 3, 2010 [http://www.dailynewstribune.com/features/x699612162/Council-panel-backs-funding-to-demolish-Gaebler-Center Council panel backs funding to demolish Gaebler Center]
 
|2=WALTHAM — A City Council committee has OK'd spending $543,875 to demolish the old [[Gaebler Childrens Center|Gaebler Children's Center]], a building that city officials had wanted to reuse as a community center.
 
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|1=February 24, 2009 [http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=199074 Decision to shut Allentown State Hospital facility final]
 
|2=About 55 patients will be leaving [[Allentown State Hospital]] in Allentown, PA and heading to [[Wernersville State Hospital]].
 
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|1=January 29, 2009 [http://www.kptv.com/news/22360349/detail.html Fire destroys building at Fairview Center in Salem, WA.]
 
|2=A cottage at the now closed Fairview Training Center burned to the ground Wednesday. Arson is suspected as the cause.
 
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|1= December 30, 2009 [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122017757&ft=1&f=1001 WWII Pacifists Exposed Mental Ward Horrors]
 
|2=In September of 1942, Warren Sawyer, a 23-year-old conscientious objector, reported for his volunteer assignment as an attendant at a state mental hospital. The young Quaker was one of thousands of pacifists who had refused to fight and instead were assigned to work in places few outsiders got to see — places like [[Philadelphia State Hospital]], best known as Byberry.
 
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|1= December 3, 2009 [http://www.qctimes.com/news/state-and-regional/iowa/article_533bcc99-c426-5275-97ad-a0b538164446.html Lawmaker: Iowa mental health center will close]
 
|2=The Legislature will likely move to close one of the state's four mental health institutions despite a task force recommendation to keep them open until a new system of care can be put in place, a state lawmaker said Thursday.
 
 
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February 7, 2016 Clarinda struggles to fill former hospital

The 128-year-old former mental health institute in the small southwest Iowa city of Clarinda isn’t your typical real estate opportunity, and so far no one is rushing to move in. More than seven months after the state closed the Clarinda Mental Health Institute, much of the sprawling building remains empty, including entire floors that haven’t been used in decades.

February 1, 2016 Efforts continue to preserve other parts of former Peoria State Hospital grounds

Christina Morris happily remembers Sunday morning breakfasts with her grandparents, followed by visits to the peaceful cemeteries on the grounds of the Peoria State Hospital, where some family members are buried. “My interest with the state hospital started when I was about 7 years old,” Morris said in a recent interview. “When I would come onto the grounds (my grandfather) would say that this was a place of special people. (By special) I thought he meant giants, because these buildings were so big and beautiful and immaculate to me. I just was enamored by how beautiful it was.”

January 7, 2016 That Time The United States Sterilized 60,000 Of Its Citizens

Not too long ago, more than 60,000 people were sterilized in the United States based on eugenic laws. Most of these operations were performed before the 1960s in institutions for the so-called “mentally ill” or “mentally deficient.” In the early 20th century across the country, medical superintendents, legislators, and social reformers affiliated with an emerging eugenics movement joined forces to put sterilization laws on the books.

January, 6, 2016 Pa. hires firm to develop plan for Harrisburg State Hospital site

Harrisburg, PA-The state has hired a Lancaster planning company to help it figure out what to do with the former Harrisburg State Hospital, which closed 10 years ago. Since closing in 2006, the hospital complex has housed state workers from the state police, Department of General Services and the Department of Human Services. It is now part of the larger DGS Annex property, which encompasses 303 acres across Harrisburg and Susquehanna Township.