Opened in November of 1908 in Spring City, Pa., Pennhurst State School and Hospital, originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic, was an ...

The Pennhurst State School and Hospital for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities closed in 1987. Three years later — on July 26, 1990 — the Americans with Disabilities Act ...

Andy Dinniman’s office recently hosted a traveling exhibit on the story of Pennhurst State School and Hospital. The exhibit, organized by the Pennhurst Memorial and Preservation Alliance ...