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may 5, 1908 - Briarcliff Manor is built.

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Briarcliff was the largest TB ward on the East Coast. 4600 people died there. They shuttled the bodies out in an underground tunnel called the Death Chute. Was purchased by the Catholic Church in 1962.

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may 5, 1908
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~ 117 years ago