Elmwood Trip
Sat, Nov 19th, 2005
posted by Arch-Image

I can remeber growing up and going past this place in the mid sixties. There was this huge 2 story looking house and small hospital looking building to the side and it alwayshad cows and horses wandering around. To be honest it seemed abandoned back then. I remeber asking what it was and my parents saying it was a retirement home and sanatorium, of course to us kids all we heard was the word sanatorium which we quickly not knowing the difference thought of it as a sanitarium. As much as our parents tried to tell us the difference, from that moment on it became known to us as the Pshyco Sanitarium. Reality was it was a TB Center and the old place next door was the originaly County Poor Farm. Sometime in the early 70's I think the Old house part burned from being vandalized and later it was torn down and used to build the Juvinile Detention Center on. All thats left now is the Elmwood building and the old house the Property Manager lived in which about to go down. It ishome however to the cows that still roam the place. As noted in the article I posted, when one of the adjacent oil companies were given permission to run a pipeline thru the property they unearther a bunch of graves from 2 cemetaries on the site and the graves were supposed to havebeen relocated to Mount Olivet down the street. Theres alot of rumors this didnt happen or that some were left. I couldnt however find anything that seemed like a cemetary.