Dorothea Dix Park (Raleigh, North Carolina)

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Former state mental institution. See also www.ncdhhs.gov/mhddsas/DIX
Closed in 2012 and its functions moved to a new hospital in Butner, NC.

Property has been sold to the city of Raleigh and will be transformed into a city park.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea_Dix_Hospital

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Coordinates: 35°46'11"N 78°39'26"W

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Cape Hatteras National Seashore 238 km
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Boylan Heights 0.7 km
NC Farmers Market 0.8 km
Governor Morehead School for the Blind 0.9 km
Central Prison 0.9 km
Downtown Raleigh, NC 1.9 km
North Carolina State University Centennial Campus 2 km
North Carolina State University Main Campus 2.2 km
Historic Oakwood Neighborhood 2.8 km
North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women 3.4 km
Wake County, North Carolina 4.3 km

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