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Essex Mountain Sanatorium (Images of America)

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Founded in 1907 amidst protests and a burgeoning suffrage movement, Essex Mountain Sanatorium was once the results of two Montclair, New Jersey, women who successfully lobbied local government to establish a tuberculosis sanatorium in a then vacant cottage for wayward girls. From these humble beginnings, the hospital grew to turn out to be one of the vital finest remedy centers in the nation, expanding into a complex of 20 buildings that encompassed nearly 300 acres. Satirically, medical advances pioneered at places such as the sanatorium and the advent of antitubercular drugs in the years following World War II led to decreasing patient enrollment, which made such large facilities unnecessary. When it was once in the end abandoned in the early 1980s, the hospital started its second act as a haven for urban explorers, vandals, and arsonists, becoming shrouded in mystery and the source of local legends and myths. After suffering years of neglect and abuse, the main complex would in any case fall to wreckers in 1993, ending crucial era in county, state, and national history.

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