Social History

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Requisition for Repayment of Surplus Revenue

Requisition for repayment of surplus revenue.

Type: OBJECT
Collection: State Census 1837

Account with F.W. Ridley for Eliza Griffin

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Pauper Accounts

Report of Frank Cowan, Attorney General, Investigating the Death of Wilber Stanton and Other Abuses at the Augusta State Hospital

#Riverview Psychiatric Center (1840-current)

Type: OBJECT
Collection: Investigations of conditions at the hospital

Miniature of [Copy] Letter from John F. Crampton, Secretary of the British Legion posted in Washington, demanding an investigation into Albert Wood's case

[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.