Social History
Showing 1551 - 1560 of 1788 Records
Citizens of Old Town petition for the appointment of Albert Richardson as Penobscot Agent [3/5]
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence
W.H. Smith, to Gov. Morrill, recommending Albert Richardson as Penobscot Agent
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence
December 1860 Report of James A. Purinton, Penobscot Agent
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence
Indian Township School Register, 1860-1861
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence
Citizens of Bangor petition for the appointment of Albert Richardson as Penobscot Agent [5/5]
- Type: OBJECT
- Collection: Wabanaki Nations Petitions and Correspondence
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.