Gabriels, New York

Coordinates: 44°25′55″N 74°10′53″W / 44.43194°N 74.18139°W

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Gabriels, New York
hamlet
Gabriels Location within the state of New York
Coordinates: 44°25′55″N 74°10′53″W / 44.43194°N 74.18139°W / 44.43194; -74.18139
Country	United States
State	New York
County	Franklin
Town	Brighton
Elevation	1,699 ft (518 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP 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.^[1]

Today, the hamlet remains the commercial center for the town of Brighton, with a post office, small businesses, a Catholic church, and farms.^[2]

References

^ Collins, Geraldine (1977). The Brighton Story, Being the History of Paul Smiths, Gabriels and Rainbow Lake. Lakemont, New York: North Country Books.
^ Town of Brighton History Net Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine

v t e Municipalities and communities of Franklin County, New York, United States
County seat: Malone
Towns	Bangor Bellmont Bombay Brandon Brighton Burke Chateaugay Constable Dickinson Duane Fort Covington Franklin Harrietstown Malone Moira Santa Clara Tupper Lake Waverly Westville	Map of New York highlighting Franklin County
Villages	Brushton Burke Chateaugay Malone Saranac Lake‡ Tupper Lake
CDPs	Akwesasne‡ Fort Covington Paul Smiths St. Regis Falls
Hamlets	Brainardsville Dickinson Center Gabriels Goldsmith Hogansburg Keese Mill Lake Clear Loon Lake North Bangor Owls Head Rainbow Lake Reynoldston Saint Regis Skerry Trout River Upper St. Regis Vermontville West Bangor Whippleville
Indian reservation	St. Regis Mohawk
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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