Sanatorium, Mississippi
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Sanatorium was the name of a community in Simpson County
Simpson County, Mississippi
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 27,639 people, 10,076 households, and 7,385 families residing in the county. The population density was 47 people per square mile . There were 11,307 housing units at an average density of 19 per square mile...

, Mississippi
Mississippi
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, USA
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, northwest of Magee
Magee, Mississippi
Magee is a city in Simpson County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,200 at the 2000 census and was estimated to be near 5,019 as of February 2007. It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

. The community was named for the Mississippi Tuberculosis Sanatorium, which was once a hospital for TB patients from 1918 to the 1950s. In 1976, the old Sanatorium facilities were transferred to the Mississippi Department of Mental Health
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 and renamed Boswell Regional Center, which is now an Intermediate Care Facility for Persons with Mental Retardation and other developmental disabilities (ICF-MR).

Sanatorium lay between the current U. S. Highway 49 and Highway 149 (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.

The community and hospital were the setting for Margaret Drake's young adult novel Sanatorium Girl, published in 1921.

Legion Lake, a state-operated recreational lake sits due north of the community.

In the 1990s, the Sanatorium postal address was abolished, and the local post office on the grounds of Boswell Regional Center was demolished.

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