TRESPASSING DISCLAIMER:

All images on this site were captured by the site owner with permission unless otherwise noted. Dixmont State Hospital is now gone, the entire facilty has undergone demolition.. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO VISIT THIS LOCATION. The property is now a construction site and no piece of Dixmont remains except those that are privately owned and in use. The local police patrol said property and arrest any trespassers found on site. Trespassers ARE prosecuted. The author of this site does not condone trespassing in any way shape or form.

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10. UNSOLICITED EMAIL OR SPAM
If you choose to send unsolicited email, or sell any email address listed on any page of the dixmontstatehospital.com web site, their images, links, scripts or text, you may be billed for the use and abuse of such email addresses. An amount determined to be fair compensation for the abuse of private email addresses will be billed to you and/or your company in an amount of up to $2,500.00 and no less than $50.00. You may also be prosecuted under 815 ILCS 511/ ELECTRONIC MAIL ACT and any other federal or local laws of your region.

11. AFFILIATIONS / NON-AFFILIATIONS
dixmontstatehospital.com is a group of individual volunteers interested in the history, architecture, facts and fiction about the Dixmont State Hospital. All information on this site is obtained through research by use of the internet, libraries, archives, personal interviews and contributions.
dixmontstatehospital.com is not affiliated in any way with any town, village, city or province with the name Dixmont, Carmel Construction, the The Stroyne Family, The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or any other company or person residing, owning or operating on the former site of the Dixmont State Hospital/Western Pennsylvania Asylum for the Insane at Dixmont.
dixmontstatehospital.com is not affiliated in any way with Dixmont State Hospital/Western Pennsylvania Asylum for the Insane at Dixmont, the mental health care system, or any person living or dead or any group of persons, tribes or indigenous peoples named "Dixmont".

 

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use

NOTE: The first priority of dixmontstatehospital.com is the dissemination of information about the former Dixmont State Hospital. Please keep in mind that changes may occur without prior notification.

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Some of the material on this site was obtained from various Commonwealth of Pennsylvania publications. These materials include, but are not limited to, the photographic images in the 1946 "A Pictorial report on Mental Institutions in Pennsylvania" by the Pennsylvania Dept. of Welfare and reports and resolutions from various state departments, (except as otherwise noted). These materials are readily available at various libraries and archives.

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