State Hospital (Morganton, N.C.)

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Dates:
Establishment 1890
Disestablishment 1959

History notes:

The State Hospital at Morganton, N.C. was originally establised in 1883 as the Western North Carolina Insane Asylum. Its first director was Dr. Patrick Livingston Murphy. In 1890 the hospital's name was changed to State Hospital at Morganton, and in 1959 to Broughton Hospital, named after World War II Governor J. Melville Broughton.

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Subjects:

  • Psychiatric hospitals
  • Psychiatric hospitals
  • Hospitals, Special
  • State hospitals
  • Mental health

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Places:

  • NC, US