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Lincoln State Hospital
This institution is located in Lincoln. As early as 1865, it was found necessary to make provision for the insane in the Territory of Nebraska. Four cases were already being treated at an Iowa hospital. The legislature authorized the governor to make an arrangement with the State of Iowa by which the State of Iowa would receive and care for the insane at Nebraska's expense. Under this arrangement, fifty patients were sent to the hospital at Mount Pleasant at various times. Soon after Nebraska became a State, the governor, secretary of State, and auditor of public accounts appointed a board of commissioners to locate a site for a State lunatic asylum near Lincoln. The first building was completed for $137,000 in the fall of 1870, and the first patient was admitted on November 26th of that year. Early in the following December, seventeen patients were brought over from Mount Pleasant to the new institution, and four were admitted who had been confined in the Pawnee county jail. Dr. N. B. Larsh was the first superintendent. Click here for more...
