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Subject: [PaCambri] Sanitorium in Cresson
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 20:11:39 EDT

Does anyone have any info on the sanitorium in Cresson, Cambria County? I
guess it was where the correctional institution stands now. Is there a
graveyard especially for those patients? How about any records on the people
that are buried there?
I have asked some older folks around here (Lilly, Cresson, and Gallitzin).
They don't seem to know too much. One lady, Mrs. Biller, said all she can
remember about it is her mother telling her as a child to hold her breath
when they would drive by it because the people in there had tuberculosis.
Mr. Prosser said that he worked there for awhile when he was young, and he
remebers that the patients never got visitors because everyone was so
petrified of catching the disease.

If any one has any info on this, please e-mail me!!!!! Thanks, Deb Behe

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