Forgotten Neighborhood of Dorothea Dix
Pictured above is what remains of Dorsett Drive on the Dorothea Dix campus. I haven’t been to this area in a few years now, and it’s quite different than I remember it. The difference being piles of rubble where abandoned houses once stood. I’ve heard that these houses were home to staff of the hospital, but I do not know for sure.
Anyone have the story of this place? Did red street signs once designate roads in Raleigh, or was it limited to the Dorothea Dix campus?
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10/14/2009
The neighborhood was used by the staff of the hospital. My kids grandmother used to live over there and I remember goin thru the neighborhood as a youth, riding the bus to Ligon, then Broughton to pick up students. They used to have cow pastures over there and was my first and only experience in cow tipping! lol
10/14/2014
Not too sure of this being the same location, but also during the 60’s there was still quite a bit of textile industry in the area… some of these houses were occupied/owned by the various textile employees.