Social History
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West Branch of the Schoodic River and West of the Machias River
- Census of the settlements in Washington County west of the West Machias River and northerly to the West Branch of the Schoodic River and lakes.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: State Census 1837
T1 R3, T1 R4, T1 R2 east and west side of Kennebec River
- Census of T1 R3, T1 R4, and T1 R2 east and west sides of Kennebec River
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: State Census 1837
Requisition for Repayment of Surplus Revenue
- Requisition for repayment of surplus revenue.
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: State Census 1837
Report of Frank Cowan, Attorney General, Investigating the Death of Wilber Stanton and Other Abuses at the Augusta State Hospital
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Investigations of conditions at the hospital
[Copy] Letter from John F. Crampton, Secretary of the British Legion posted in Washington, demanding an investigation into Albert Wood's case
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Black History
Secretary of State John Clayton sends copies of documents relating to Albert Wood's case
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Black History
Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI)
- The Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI) was founded in 1840 as the Maine Insane Hospital. Mental health advocate Dorothea Dix consulted on the project, and believed fresh air and removal from the stresses of society were important for patient care. Tragically, 27 patients died when the hospital caught fire on December 4, 1850. The hospital’s campus expanded over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and it was known under a variety of names: the Augusta Insane Asylum, Augusta State Hospital (1913), and finally the Augusta Mental Health Institute (1973). AMHI’s aging infrastructure was closed as a medical facility in 2004, replaced by Riverview Psychiatric Center on the same campus. The AMHI campus has undergone several renovation campaigns and now houses multiple state agencies.