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Gabriels, New York

Field	Value
official_name	Gabriels, New York
settlement_type	hamlet
pushpin_map	New York Adirondack Park
pushpin_label	Gabriels
pushpin_label_position
pushpin_map_caption	Location within the state of New York
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	New York
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Franklin
subdivision_type3	Town
subdivision_name3	Brighton
unit_pref	Imperial
timezone	Eastern (EST)
utc_offset	-5
timezone_DST	EDT
utc_offset_DST	-4
elevation_ft	1699
coordinates
postal_code_type	ZIP code
postal_code	12939
area_code	518

Gabriels is a hamlet in the town of Brighton in Franklin County, New York, United States, inside the Adirondack Park near Paul Smiths. The village developed around a tuberculosis cure facility, the Gabriels Sanatorium, which was opened in 1897 by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy. The land was donated by Paul Smith and W. Seward Webb. The site was later purchased by Paul Smith's 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 Henry Gabriels, a Belgian-born prelate who served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg. The hamlet developed as the commercial center on 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. In 1961, the 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 Catholic church, and farms.

References

Collins, Geraldine. (1977). "The Brighton Story, Being the History of Paul Smiths, Gabriels and Rainbow Lake". North Country Books.
[http://www.townofbrighton.net/history.html Town of Brighton History Net] {{webarchive. link. (2007-09-28)

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