Photo: "Exfoliation"

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Over the years, Kings Park Psychiatric Center became a self-sufficient community. Staff and patients would work around the campus every day of the week, performing tasks as part of an occupational therapy program. They planted and maintained crops and livestock, made clothes and participated in various construction projects.

Photo: "Regimented"

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The Kings Park Lunatic Asylum was established in 1885 as an extention to the Brooklyn County Hospital. When the need for mentally ill facilities grew, the hospital was handed over to New York State. They helped facilitate the growth of the hospital campus, turning it into a self-sufficient community.