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From: "Jan Davis" <>
Subject: Re: [NORCAL] State Mental Asylums/Agnews
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:52:25 -0700
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It's a section of San Jose. My uncle taught in that school district for many
years.
Jan in San Diego
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Subject: Re: [NORCAL] State Mental Asylums/Agnews


>
>
> Sorry folks,
>
> My brain just kicked into gear & it was Alum Rock where my aunt spent
> some time when she had TB & that my grandmother donated a fountain for
> the
> grounds.
> Is Alum Rock still there?
>
> Shelley
>
>
> Hi,
> I believe Agnews served at a TB sanitarium (sp)? at one time also, as
> my aunt spent some time there as well as other places, & my grandmother
> donated a fountain for the landscape there.
> Shelley
>
>>Marge - There's a whole library of books that couldl be written about
>>the
> asylums. Thanks for the stories.
>>
>>What about Agnews? I've found family on both sides (explains one or two
> things!) who were in Agnews at census-taking time. One died of tb
> shortly
> after. Was Agnews always just a mental hospital, or did it have other
> wards?
>
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>
> =^..^=
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