1,382 Comments for Dixmont State Hospital

BustedTrespasser there must have been another red Dodge up there besides mine. I was in the front by the T. Rex when you were walking around on the 2nd floor. I did not call the cops. Someone else called the superintendent of the job, and then he called the cops also because of the 50 ton dump truck accident. After I saw you and your Jeep I went to the ball park to get some pictures. After a while I saw the tow truck and you come out. I was leavening and got busted by the cops. I was taken down to the job trailer by the smoke stack. The cops questioned me, then the superintendent came along and straightened everything out. Hell I haul out of there during the week and got questioned on Sunday. I think its a bunch of bull shit due to the ASS HATS screwing with all the stuff. All it takes is one to screw it up.

No, that was not me in the cafeteria. I was questioned by the police around 5:00pm. They wanted to know who I was and the whole 9 yards. After I explained to them, I was the guy who halls out of there all week and the superintendent showed up all was fine. They also wanted to know if any body else was up there, and who they are. I told them there was no one else up there, I knew there were some people left up there but I was not going to rat them out. All is well.
But now they are arresting people.

I my self have the info if you no waht i mean. Reed Hall Has not be demolished by the construction people yet it has been. It has been truspassers on the property destroying equipment and those sorts of things.

That's a tidy little profit, buy for $1860. an acre, sell for 1,000,000. an acre. Plus, he still owns 372 acres, only in America.....

Those walkways are sweet business! Too bad they are gone...

PS: Is it just the photo, or is it angled down? Really fun stuff if it's angled down!

It was us that you run in to.We came around the building and seen the cops and went down the hill past the power plant.I guess everyone was up with you guys and no one was down below,just 2 empty cop cars.

Truckie: That must have been you and your accomplice that my friends and I encountered Sunday afternoon in the cafeteria building! The police almost towed my car! Did they charge you with anything for being there? The officer told me that I might be charged with defiant trespassing, but he was recommending to his chief that no charges be pressed.

The State of PA owned the Dixmont site until 1999 when it was bought by a neigbor of the site. He bought all 407 acres for about $757,000, intending to control the property so that his neighboring farm wouldn't be disturbed by possible development. He then intended to sell the front 75 acres of the property to WalMart after they approached him about purchasing the property. When the final agreement was made, only 35 acres of the front of the property was sold to WalMart for $35 million. The local neigbor has kept the other 372 acres, but many of the complex's structures, including the Kirkbride, are on the 35 acres now owned by WalMart. The cemetary has about 1,300 graves in a 1 acre plot that the state never sold as part of the 1999 deal. So the cemetary is still owned and maintained by the State of PA and is far enough from the WalMart site that it won't be disturbed.

Beware the lurking construction workers. One in a red Dodge pickup alerted his boss (the guy in charge of the whole site I was told) yesterday when I visited with some friends. The boss called the cops on me and as we were walking back to my car getting ready to leave, the tow truck arrived to steal my car. Luckily for me, the cops and the tow truck driver were really cool with us and I think we got everything worked out, but I may still be charged with defiant trespass.

There are construction trailers down by Rt. 65 near the old water treatment plant and powerhouse where it seems that someone from the construction company stays 24/7. The police are on high alert now since on Saturday they told me someone got in one of the big Terex earthmovers and drove it into the side of a building. The cops also told me something about the EPA being a pain about people coming to the site because of the asbestos all through the main building.

And score yet another point for Lynne. That makes the total:

Lynne: Too high to count
Morons: Big fat ZERO!

Go, Lynne!!!!

From Wikipedia:

'In the city charter, granted on March 18, 1816, the "Pittsburgh" spelling is used on the original document, but due to an apparent printing error, the "Pittsburg" spelling is found on official copies of the document printed at the time.
On December 23, 1891, a recommendation by the United States Board on Geographic Names to standardize place names was signed into law. The law officially changed the spelling of the city name to "Pittsburg", and publications would use this spelling for the next 20 years. However, the change was very unpopular in the city, and several businesses and organizations refused to make the change. Responding to mounting pressure, the United States Geographic Board reversed the decision on July 19, 1911, and the "Pittsburgh" spelling was restored.'

Those plants are all gone now. The trees have been cut down and removed, and the weeds in the road have all been smashed up by the tracks of the construction equipment that now surrounds the building like and invading army laying seige to an ancient city.

That is so cool! Where was this safe located?

It's too bad that the safe company misspelled the city that it named itself for. Twice. Pittsburgh, PA is spelled with an "H" at the end, Pittsburg with no "H" at the end is a city in California.

One of the cops who cited me for trespassing and was about to tow my car said he is a long time resident of the neighborhood where Dixmont is located. He said that he knows somebody who used to work in the hospital and is very familiar with the tunnel system. He got a "tunnel tour" from this guy and said that the tunnels run all over under the entire complex. The officer also claims that the tunnels under the main building extend three stories underground and some exit down by the Ohio River. He also said that it is really dangerous to go down in those parts because if you weren't familiar with the tunnels, you would surely get lost.

I have to believe him about the tunnels going all the way down to the river banks because I know this same thing is true of the Cardello Electric site a bit farther down the river. The Cardello building is on the site of an old steel mill. The mill had a full underground conveyor system that carried raw materials into the mill. Barges on the river would dock at the mill's dock and be unloaded by cranes on the river bank and the materials were carried up by the underground conveyors into the mill buildings that are now long gone. I work for a local contractor and we did some work there about 2 years ago and I got to see some of what remains of that conveyor system.

I saw this room yesterday. It was cool to see (safely from the doorway, of course). What was even more cool was looking at this scene in the room below it.