Gabriels, New York

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official_name = Gabriels, New York
settlement_type = Hamlet
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 = New York
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Franklin
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population_as_of = 2000
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population_total = 804
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timezone = Eastern (EST)
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elevation_ft = 1699
latd = 44 |latm = 25 |lats = 55 |latNS = N
longd = 74 |longm = 10 |longs = 53 |longEW = W

postal_code_type = ZIP code
postal_code = 12939
area_code = 518
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Gabriels is a hamlet in the Town of Brighton in Franklin County, New York inside the Adirondack Park near Paul Smiths, New York. It is the site of Camp Gabriels, a minimum security state prison. The site of Gamp Gabriels was originally built as The Gabriels Sanatorium. opened in 1897. The site was later purchased by Paul Smiths College. The site was sold to the Department of Corrections in 1982.

Both the Sanatorium and the Hamlet were named for Catholic Bishop Henry Gabriels of Ogdensburg, New York. The hamlet grew up as the commercial center around a train depot serving the Adirondack Division of the New York Central line. The station existed primarily to deliver vacationers to the nearby resort at Paul Smiths, New York. In 1961, New York Central abandoned the Adirondack Division from Malone Junction to Gabriels. [Collins, Geraldine. "The Brighton Story, Being the History of Paul Smiths, Gabriels and Rainbow Lake", Lakemont, New York: North Country Books. 1977]

Today, the hamlet remains the commercial center for the town of Brighton, with a Post Office, small businesses, a Roman Catholic Church, and farms. [ [http://www.townofbrighton.net/history.html Town of Brighton History Net] ] As of 2007, Gabriels' population is 804. [ [http://www.bestplaces.net/zip-code/Gabriels-New_York-12939.aspx Sperling's Best Places] ]

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