| Posted by bellwether |
5/11/2004 1:36 PM | remove |
The hospital was at one time totally self-sufficient, with its own farms (cows), crop growing. Generated its own power, housed its staff (the cottages were the doctors' homes, the apartment buildings were for the nurses).
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/11/2004 3:17 PM | remove |
the angrignon park property was at one time the cow pasture hence the narrow bridge acroos the aqueduct
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| Posted by ex-goose-villager |
5/20/2004 6:45 PM | remove |
[quote]Posted by bellwether
The hospital was at one time totally self-sufficient, with its own farms (cows), crop growing. Generated its own power, housed its staff (the cottages were the doctors' homes, the apartment buildings were for the nurses).
Posted by exposfan
the angrignon park property was at one time the cow pasture hence the narrow bridge acroos the aqueduct
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Makes perfect sense, actually. considering that Douglas got its start in the 19th century, when the city was much less built-up, the hospital location was rather more isolated from the rest of the populace. Farming would have provided excellent rehabilitation as well.
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| Posted by andrea |
6/2/2004 6:17 AM | remove |
A lot of mental hospitals were around this time....
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| Posted by andrea |
6/2/2004 6:18 AM | remove |
self sufficant I mean..
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
3/20/2006 1:51 AM | remove |
there was 2 of these "cow bridges" if my memory serves me well.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/20/2006 5:23 AM | remove |
well the other "pedestrian bridge" is farther west, it was a car bridge 1 way until they ran a water pipe across it, now its ped only and it was just re done, it was in line with "crawford bridge" street, closed in the 80s to car traffic
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
3/20/2006 5:44 AM | remove |
right!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/20/2006 1:53 PM | remove |
the knox bridge at schevchenko was cool, greatly undersized for years the sidewalks were on steel beems fed through the arches underneath. seriously though, i dont know why they fixed crawford bridge first when the bridge at dollard (name escapes me) sees car traffic and is in worse shape, its like when the lasalle blvd bridge was in danger of collapse, took forever to negotiate to move lasalle blvd a few yards south and bypass the bridge altogether on dry land
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| Posted by HerbLaur |
7/10/2008 6:34 AM | remove |
As far as I know there was still a very large garden tended to by the patients as late as the mid '90's. It could still be there, for all I know.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
7/10/2008 12:19 PM | remove |
it is still there
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| Posted by sookieb |
11/8/2012 7:58 AM | remove |
There is a small garden in back of Reed (Emergency/Intensive Care) that the patients sometimes use. Aside from that and the greenhouse..there aren't any gardents really.
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