its owned by city of boston and is unaccessable to the public jim In a message dated 10/18/02 5:52:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, quinnieqz@attbi.com writes: > The Long Island Hospital that I know of in Boston is actually located on > Long Island in Boston Harbor and is connected by a bridge through what is > now Quincy, MA. The facilty consists of several building and is no longer a > state facilty (not since the 1970's I think). The Boston Harbor Island are > now considered a National Park and you may be able to obtain some > information to the right Long Island Hospital History that way. The facilty > is now rented out to several different non-profit and city run service > providers (a homeless shelter, a DYS locked unt, transitional housing, group > homes from handicapped and mentally ill patients, a couple of alcohol & drug > detox programs, and others I'm sure. I used to have a xerox copy of the > histroy of the harbor islands, but it got lost in a move somewhere a long > the way. > all denning-dever-cogan in mass-some malone-carroll-mcguire-doherty-mcneil-piscopo-mazzola-heslin-martini-feddis-fa rley-dennen-dinan-fredricks- ____________________________________ "we go to school to learn the words of fools" bob dylan