10 Abandoned & Forgotten Sanatoriums in New York With Dark Histories
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For fifty years, a cough could send you away from everyone you loved. New York built places in the mountains, on hilltops and even on an island in the East River to hold the sick. Then a new medicine arrived, and the sanatoriums were abandoned, turned into prisons, or handed back to the forest.
In this documentary we count down 10 abandoned and forgotten New York sanatoriums: a hospital named for a doctor who died before it opened, a mountain where a president died and then patients and prisoners followed, a building sold at auction for $55,100, and the island that held Typhoid Mary for 23 years.
Did someone in your family take "the cure"? Tell us in the comments.
0:00 When a cough could take you away
2:21 #10 Iola – Rochester
5:00 #9 Loomis – Liberty, Catskills
8:21 #8 Ray Brook – Adirondacks
11:32 #7 Stony Wold – Lake Kushaqua
15:29 #6 Saratoga County Homestead – Barkersville
18:57 #5 Mount McGregor – Wilton
21:29 #4 Saranac Lake – Trudeau's Cottage Sanitarium
24:25 #3 Sea View Hospital – Staten Island
27:40 #2 J.N. Adam Memorial Hospital – Perrysburg
30:35 #1 North Brother Island – East River
34:01 Otisville, Sunmount & Onondaga
35:24 The last sanatorium in New York
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#NewYorkHistory #AbandonedPlaces #Sanatorium #TyphoidMary #NorthBrotherIsland
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10 Abandoned & Forgotten Sanatoriums in New York With Dark Histories
EDAN NEW YORK
2,544 views
For fifty years, a cough could send you away from everyone you loved. New York built places in the mountains, on hilltops and even on an island in the East River to hold the sick. Then a new medicine arrived, and the sanatoriums were abandoned, turned into prisons, or handed back to the forest.
In this documentary we count down 10 abandoned and forgotten New York sanatoriums: a hospital named for a doctor who died before it opened, a mountain where a president died and then patients and prisoners followed, a building sold at auction for $55,100, and the island that held Typhoid Mary for 23 years.
Did someone in your family take "the cure"? Tell us in the comments.
0:00 When a cough could take you away
2:21 #10 Iola – Rochester
5:00 #9 Loomis – Liberty, Catskills
8:21 #8 Ray Brook – Adirondacks
11:32 #7 Stony Wold – Lake Kushaqua
15:29 #6 Saratoga County Homestead – Barkersville
18:57 #5 Mount McGregor – Wilton
21:29 #4 Saranac Lake – Trudeau's Cottage Sanitarium
24:25 #3 Sea View Hospital – Staten Island
27:40 #2 J.N. Adam Memorial Hospital – Perrysburg
30:35 #1 North Brother Island – East River
34:01 Otisville, Sunmount & Onondaga
35:24 The last sanatorium in New York
Subscribe to EDAN NEW YORK for more of the New York that disappeared.
#NewYorkHistory #AbandonedPlaces #Sanatorium #TyphoidMary #NorthBrotherIsland