Gabriels is a

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in the town of

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, United States, inside the

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near Paul Smiths. The village developed around a

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cure facility, the Gabriels Sanatorium, which was opened in 1897 by the

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. The land was donated by Paul Smith and W. Seward Webb. The site was later purchased by

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. 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

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. The hamlet developed as the commercial center on a train depot serving the Adirondack Division of the

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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

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, and farms.Town of Brighton History Net

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