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		<title>Fact Sheet: Friends of Dorothea Dix Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of North Carolina&#8217;s irreplaceable Pre-Civil War historic landmarks and environmental treasures sits atop a hill on 335 acres overlooking North Carolina&#8217;s capital city.   Its future is being threatened.  The Dorothea Dix Campus, established in 1848, is a designated National Historic Registered District.  The total property at its height was over 1,800 acres.  Now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters: Bill Holman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 12, 2004
The Honorable Eric Reeves
The Honorable David Miner and
The Honorable Jennifer Weiss, Co-Chairs
Dorothea Dix Property Study Commission
General Assembly of North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina 27603
Re: Dorothea Dix Property Recommendations
Dear Senator Reeves and Representatives Miner and Weiss:
Thank you for requesting public comments on the Dorothea Dix Property in Raleigh. I commend the General Assembly for providing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofdix.org/letters-bill-holman/</link>
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		<title>Current Situation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh is closing. Will the hillside open space of the Dorothea Dix property overlooking Raleigh be sold to the highest bidder or will the public retain control and use? The State of North Carolina acquired the beginnings of what became 2300 acres to establish a mental hospital in Raleigh in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofdix.org/current-situation/</link>
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		<title>Relevant Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



In the last 12 years Wake County has lost one out three trees.     (Environmental Defense)




Open space was the top priority on the Raleigh citizen survey, above     transportation needs. (Raleigh website)




A development can be built anywhere, there’s only one downtown capital     park possibility for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofdix.org/relevant-facts/</link>
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		<title>Economic Benefits of Public Parks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public spaces have many real and measurable economic benefits. For example, parks can contribute significantly to the land values in a city. In New York, the real estate values around Bryant Park, Central Park, Prospect Park and Riverside Park are the highest in the city. Minneapolis’ prime residential areas are located along the extensive park [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofdix.org/economic-benefits-of-public-parks/</link>
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		<title>A Short Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Hooker
As you enter the Dix property from Bilyeu St. (opposite the Circle K across Ashe Ave. from Pullen Park), Bilyeu will turn into Barbour Dr. as it enters the hospital grounds to the left.
Traveling up the hill on your left is a wonderful oak forest in what used to be known as Kendall Circle. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofdix.org/a-short-tour/</link>
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		<title>Description of the Property</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Master Plan for Dorothea Dix is for the Department of Health and Human Services to make it a campus for its offices and other department offices. Currently there are 1200 employees after the hospital leaves. DHHS have approximately 2800 employees are in leased buildings(440,000) or government buildings downtown. All together the State leases two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofdix.org/description-of-the-property/</link>
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		<title>Brief History of Dorothea Dix Hospital</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Dobbin (1814-1857) ensured the passage of the bill establishing a state insane asylum, later named for Dorothea Dix. Dorothea Dix came to North Carolina to lobby to establish a state insane asylum. Staying at the Mansion House Hotel in Raleigh, Dorothea learned of a woman lying critically ill in one of its rooms. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.friendsofdix.org/brief-history-of-dorothea-dix-hospital/</link>
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		<title>Background</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The General Assembly voted to build a mental hospital in Butner and close the Dorothea Dix hospital. At the point the idea of selling all the Dorothea Dix property surfaced. A legislative committee was appointed to study the issue. The directive was to study what should be done with the property if it sold. There [...]]]></description>
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