Raleigh’s New Dix Hill Park: Recovering the History of Dix Hospital for Future Generations
Reading Room, New East 211 | Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 12:30-1:45 PM
Please join us for a lunch-time presentation and discussion of the transformation of the Dorothea Dix Hospital site into a “destination” park, and the role of the Community Histories Workshop in recovering the long history of that site. The presentation on Dorothea Dix Hospital will take place in New East 211 on Wednesday, February 14th from 12:30pm-1:45pm.
From 1856 to 2012, Dix Hospital was the state’s principal insane asylum. For 150 years prior to 1856, Dix Hill, as it was called, was part of the Hunter family plantation.
After the closure of the facility, the 308-acre site was purchased from the state by the City of Raleigh so that it could be repurposed as one of the largest new urban parks in the U.S. The Dix Park Conservancy Board was formed to facilitate planning and design of the park and has engaged the nationally renowned landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh...