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October 17, 1909, the State Commission in Lunacy purchased 550 acres (2.2 km) on Lake Mohansic for $ 135,000, with the intention of building an asylum to accommodate 2,000 (later 6,000) patients to relieve the overcrowding of institutions in New York City. The property was later expanded to
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eventually ordered construction stopped to protect the watershed, and in 1918 he signed a bill which abandoned the hospital project. The funds for
Mohansic were re-appropriated for use in construction of an asylum in upstate New York, and the property was converted to a state park in 1918.
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Yorktown Heights and across Crom Pond to the site. Construction of the hospital was underway, starting with three "cottages" which housed 165 patients. Strang Cottage was the site of the murder of 19-year-old hospital attendant Charles Wiley, Jr. on July 4, 1913.
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660 acres (270 ha), with an additional 490 acres (2.0 km) for the New York State
Training School for Boys. Dr. Isham G. Harris became superintendent of Mohansic State Hospital in 1910.
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