The following is an article from the Oregon Statesman published May 31, 1931. Blaze Destroys Two State Hospital Farm Barns, Loss $40,000 Excited Inmate Dashes Into Inferno, Saved With Shirt Burned ——– Believed Incendiary; Cattle [...]
This report was published in the 22nd Biennial Report of the Oregon State Hospital to the Oregon State Board of Control for the years 1924-1926. Bakery This department is operated by one employe [...]
The following is a transcription from the July/August 1961 edition of The Lamplighter, a monthly magazine published by the patients of the Oregon State Hospital. The article addresses the the Patients as Nurses or P.A.N. [...]
What: Public open house and tour of Oregon State Hospital’s newly completed patient wing. When: Friday, March 2, 2012, 1 to 6:30 p.m. Where: Oregon State Hospital, 2600 Center Street NE, Salem For more information [...]
The following is a transcription of an editorial published in The Oregon Daily Journal, on Thursday, October 6, 1949. The Citizens Action committee and the Central Club council of Portland and local representatives of the [...]
Today the historic fountain was reinstalled at the Oregon State Hospital. The fountain is returning to its original location, after having been removed when the administration building (Siskyou Hall) was constructed. Take a look at [...]
The following is an article written by Amy Vandegrift, development director at the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, Oregon for the Statesman Journal appearing Sunday, February 4, 2012. It describes the Colony Farm, a property [...]
Read about how Oregon's Provisional Government provided mental health services in 1845 at the Oregon State Archives' online exhibit: Echoes of Oregon.
One of the most vocal proponents of women’s suffrage in Oregon was also the leading proponent of Eugenics legislation which would affect the lives of hundreds of patients at the Oregon State Hospital. Beginning in [...]