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Stockton State Hospital (Calif.)
A landmark of California history, this institution began in the Gold Rush era as the state's first psychiatric hospital and later became known as Stockton Developmental Center. Its long, complicated story reflects changing ideas about mental health care, public institutions, and memory in the state.
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Rules and Regulations of the Insane Asylum of California Prescribed by the Resident Physician, August 1, 1861
by Stockton State Hospital (Calif.)
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Stockton State Hospital was established in Stockton, California, in the early 1850s and is widely identified as California's first state psychiatric hospital. Over time it was also known as the Insane Asylum of California at Stockton and later the Stockton Developmental Center.
The institution operated for well over a century, and records from the Online Archive of California show a long administrative history stretching from the 1850s into the 1990s. The site is also recognized as a California Historical Landmark, and the original hospital grounds later became part of the Stockton campus used by California State University, Stanislaus.
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