Dayton State Hospital grounds

caption reads: "A winding road, trees glazed with ice and snow, a peaceful calm- a picturesque scene on the Dayton State Hospital grounds." The Dayton State Hospital started in 1855 as the Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum and would eventually become the Dayton Mental Health Center. In the 1960's it served 2000 patients in 77 buildings, on 1,000 acres. Over the years, parts of the grounds were sold off, due to decline, and in February of 2008, the state officially closed the hospital, by then known as Twin Valley Behavioral Health Care