Driving through the country roads, one might happen upon a road with a somewhat cryptic name. Sanatorium Road stretches up a mountain and leads to the recently abandoned Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital.
In 1907, New Jersey opened its only state owned and operated sanatorium in Glen Gardner.
It was intended to be a model institution, providing individual and public health benefits to an expected 500 case annually. Ahead if its time in terms of treatment methods, the facility treated more than 10,000 people between 1907 and 1929.…
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