Healing of the Hills: The Happy, Home-Like Way: A True Story of Sanatorium Life at Stony Wold

Healing of the Hills: The Happy, Home-Like Way: A True Story of Sanatorium Life at Stony Wold

Rejissyor: Ellis, Carlyle. Shots to be logged. From http://www.hsl.wikispot.org/Stony_Wold_Sanatorium : In 1901, Elizabeth Newcomb founded Stony Wold Sanatorium on 1800 acres of a hillside overlooking Lake Kushaqua, just north of Brighton in the Town of Franklin. Her idea was to create a charitable sanatorium for the treatment of underprivileged young women suffering from TB. She was encouraged by her husband, Dr. James Edward Newcomb and by Dr. E.L. Trudeau, and received support from many prominent people of New York City as well as from AT&T, DuPont, Gould, Biggs, Potter, Pond, Morgan, and Rockefeller. At its peak in the 1930s Stony Wold consisted of twenty buildings and a farm, and generated its own electricity. There were more than 150 patients attended by two doctors, many nurses, and a dietitian— in all, a staff of seventy. Over the years, six thousand patients were treated, mostly women and some men and children. They had the convenience of getting to Stony Wold by train, from a station on the Adirondack Division of the New York Central Railroad. Patients benefited from the beautiful setting and the respectful and friendly encouragement of the staff. Many people from the area were employed there and enjoyed the Sans social events as well. Elizabeth Newcomb herself succumbed to TB in 1938 and was buried between Stony Wold Hall and the lake, at her request, where she “could look out over the waters of the quiet lake” Kushaqua— Algonquin for “beautiful resting place.” Stony Wold closed in 1955 with the advent of new drugs and was sold to the White Fathers Catholic Order, missionaries to Africa. It then became St. Joseph’s Seminary until 1972. By 1974 the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation became owner of most of the property and the buildings were torn down. Stony Wold Hall and two cottages remain, now (2002) in private ownership.

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