North Brother Island : Leper colony

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North Brother Island, off of Manhattan, was a leper colony from 1885 to 1963.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... sland.html

Photos and insightful narration by Ian Ference
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creepy! The photos in that link are stunning.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. ~Henry David Thoreau
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