Dakota Datebook: State Hospital Opens and Broste Rock Museum

State Hospital Opens

by Merry Helm

May 1, 2019 — On this day in 1885, the North Dakota Hospital For The Insane at Jamestown was opened. Its corporate seal featured the three figures of Faith, Hope and Charity, with the caption: "But The Greatest Of These Is Charity."

This hospital was a model institution for the times. One reporter wrote, “I have visited many ‘insane asylums’ (back east...