Gabriels is a hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 in the Town of Brighton

Brighton, Franklin County, New York

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 in Franklin County, New York

Franklin County, New York

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 inside the Adirondack Park near Paul Smiths, New York

Paul Smiths, New York

Paul Smiths is a hamlet in the Town of Brighton in Franklin County, New York, on Lower Saint Regis Lake, in the Adirondacks, 10 miles north of Saranac Lake, located at 44°26' North 74°15' West....

. The village grew up around a cure facility for tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

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,The Gabriels Sanatorium, opened in 1897 by the Catholic

Catholic

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 Sisters of Mercy. The land was donated by Paul Smith

Paul Smith

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 and W. Seward Webb. The site was later purchased by Paul Smiths College. The site was sold to the Department of Corrections in 1982. The Department of Corrections' Camp Gabriels closed in 2009.

Both the Sanatorium and the Hamlet were named for Catholic Bishop Henry Gabriels of Ogdensburg, New York

Ogdensburg, New York

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. 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

Paul Smiths, New York

Paul Smiths is a hamlet in the Town of Brighton in Franklin County, New York, on Lower Saint Regis Lake, in the Adirondacks, 10 miles north of Saranac Lake, located at 44°26' North 74°15' West....

. In 1961, New York Central abandoned the Adirondack Division from Malone Junction to Gabriels.

Today, the hamlet remains the commercial center for the town of Brighton, with a Post Office, small businesses, a Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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, and farms.