Sanatorium, Mississippi

Sanatorium was the name of a community in Simpson County, Mississippi (USA), northwest of Magee. The community was named for the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, which was once a hospital for TB patients from 1918 to the 1950s. In 1976, the old Sanatorium facilities were transferred to the MS 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).

Sanatorium lay between the current U. S. Highway 49 and Highway 149 (Old Highway 49), and was once home to the only drive-in movie theatre in the region. The ruins of the screen can still be seen from the old highway.

The community and hospital were the setting for Margaret Drake's young adult novel "Sanatorium Girl", published in 1921.

Legion Lake, a state-operated recreational lake sits due north of the community.

In the 1990s, the Sanatorium postal address was abolished, the local post office on the grounds of Boswell Regional Center was demolished, and the community was incorporated into the city of Magee.

External links

* [http://www.brc.state.ms.us/images/tbs2.pdf Information on the Mississippi Tuberculosis Sanatorium]