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From: "Roland Elliott" <>
Subject: Re: [NORCAL] State Mental Asylums/Agnews
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:34:02 -0700
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Alum Rock got it's name from a Boulder of Copper Sulfate and other minerals
that exist where the Hayward/Calaveras Fault spews gases and water into
Mineral springs,that boulder was melted for the war effort but the public
springs and swimming pool with it's twisted slide lasted many years it was
always a safe and nice place to meet and Picnic into the late 60's.
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From: "Jan Davis" <>
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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [NORCAL] State Mental Asylums/Agnews


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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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 12:12 PM
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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