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Sanatorium, Mississippi
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Sanatorium, Mississippi
Coordinates: 31°53′55.57″N89°46′39.27″W / 31.8987694°N 89.7775750°W / 31.8987694; -89.7775750
Country United States
State Mississippi
County Simpson
Elevation
528 ft (161 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 601
GNIS feature ID677315 [1]

Sanatorium is an unincorporated community in Simpson County, Mississippi, United States, northwest of Magee. The community was named for the Mississippi Tuberculosis Sanatorium, founded in 1916, [2] which was a hospital for tuberculosis patients from 1918 to the 1950s.

In 1976, the old Sanatorium facilities were transferred to the Mississippi Department of Mental Health and renamed Boswell Regional Center, which is now an Intermediate Care Facility for Persons with Mental Retardation and other developmental disabilities (ICF-MR). Its central building, Dexter Hall, received a Heritage Award for Restoration in 2014.[ citation needed ]

Sanatorium lies between the current U.S. Route 49 and Mississippi Highway 149 (Old Highway 49), and it was once home to the only drive-in movie theatre in the region. George Grubbs, a Simpson County judge, [3] owned the Scaife (San) Hotel on Highway 149 which was converted into a halfway house in the 1990s. [4] The hotel was destroyed by fire on May 18, 2020. [5]

Legion Lake, a state-operated recreational lake, sits due north of the community. In the 1990s, the Sanatorium postal address was abolished, and the local post office on the grounds of Boswell Regional Center was demolished. [6]

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References

  1. "Sanatorium". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. "Mississippi State Sanatorium".
  3. "Mississippi Association for Justice".
  4. "New Life Fellowship".
  5. "Historical Scaife (Sanatorium) Hotel Burns" . Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  6. "Mississippi Rails" . Retrieved July 1, 2018.