WRAL.com archive: Dorothea Dix closing

The Dorothea Dix Hospital was slated to close in early 2008 as mental patients are transferred to another facility. State and local officials are debated what to do with the 306-acre Dix campus south of downtown Raleigh.


The Dorothea Dix Hospital was slated to close in early 2008 as mental patients are transferred to another facility. State and local officials are debated what to do with the 306-acre Dix campus south of downtown Raleigh.