Sanatorium, Mississippi
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Sanatorium is a village in Mississippi, North-West of Magee, Mississippi. The village was named for the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, which was once a hospital for TB patients from 1918 to 1976. Boswell Regional Center is now a hospital for the mentally challenged.
The city and hospital were the setting for Margaret Drake's young adult novel Sanatorium Girl, published in 1921.
Sanatorium lies along 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.
Legion Lake sits due north of the village.
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