In 2015, the Dix Park Conservancy created the Dix Legacy Committee to ensure that the legacy of Dorothea Dix the mental health pioneer and Dix the hospital was honored in appropriate ways and that the mental health community remain involved in park planning.The committee’s mission has grown to include honoring all of the legacies of the land, including its natural flora and fauna and its history as a home to Indigenous people and as a site where enslaved Africans were forced to live and work o