The upper floor of the pharmacy was a speakeasy and brothel. The legendary Purple Gang of Jailhouse Rock fame would hole up in the only hotel in town, The Doherty. "You'll be able to see positive changes very, very quickly by the time they take out the tunnel," he revealed. I recall a few times patients escaped NSH and wandered to the cottages where you could see shadows roaming around outside our windows at night and the Cottage would be on lockdown until they were found. We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the worlds hidden wonders. One person was found in the dead of winter down the road in a ditch filled with water with no coat or shoes, another came and sat in our front yard and asked for a glass of water (in summer) until my mom figured out that he was another escapee. I was pretty young at the time so I dont remember exactly, but they were either from the Revolutionary War or the Civil War. This past sunday night, a bunch of my friends and I went to old Northville sanitarium hospital grounds, and went into the tunnels. Is it fake? The woods were not evil. People thought that they were fathered by priests and nuns of former times, interred there in clandestine tombs to hide their heinous proclivities. During the remodeling of the old hotel I was fortunate enough to be invited to the basement to view new construction and was shown the tunnel entrances. .We could've persisted but we didn't.I did walk on the grounds in the early 90's,and from the former Edgewood site,I went into Pilgrim -there are also tunnels on those grounds;I didn't go in them yet.I see some buildings at Pilgrim state are being torn down;I want to get this hospital on video,because it won't be there much longer probably;since the state wants to build a mini city there.I'm sorry I didn't film Edgewood,but I can film Pilgrim state before it gets demolished by the construction crews.Theres a lot of history at these hospitals(Pilgrim and former Edgewood).I remember a full parking lot in the late 60's at Edgewood,when my father drove by there.SUNY Farmingdale also has tunnels(steam tunnels) and some bomb shelters,but the doors are padlocked.Very interesting down there.Anyone whos interested in tunnels should check out the NY city subway tunnels;I use to film them from the train and also I walked into them a little.Most likely this will be harder now(thanks to the terror attacks,massive security percautions,and sometimes from people that ruin a good thing).Now,it's 2004,and you may not be able to film in the subways anymore(unless you have the camera on and your walking and holding it down by your side and hide the red indicator light).I managed to walk a few hundred feet into the broadway nassau subway station in lower Manhatten ,in the summer of 2002;but I'm sure it's well guarded now. Awesome Inc. theme. These allowed access to almost every building. have heard "something about" them, but some of the "Edgewood Fans" were not sure they actually existed. I was in cottage 5 if memory serves me right. I always felt really bad for a lot of the residents on lockdown wards. I was 11 the first summer we moved there and my parents bought me my first horse. Manowar!! My brother stayed at my house last month, and this bill is 150.00. I used to worship satan in the tunnels, and sacrafice lots of animals. Unforseen damages have been fixed immediately. Those doors were not locked. "The first step is the design process," Boote said. Rumor also has it that those loggers were a thirsty bunch. All rights reserved. Awesome Inc. theme. I didn't like being away from home but made the best of it. Kathy, Livonia, Good morning Ryan, I am here in sunny Texas working on another Wind Farm. A Michigan State historic marker was erected on the site where this event happened on Wayne Road, just south of Joy. Tunnels rock. Produced by Dan Weisburd, the U.S. Heh, Paul Di'Anno walking down Commack Rd? I learned how to swim in Hawthorn in the little pool and the big pool. As we cut through the woods on horseback we came upon this extremely high fenced yard with some people in it. As a group of urban explorers from Chicago visited me, we searched the basement and found a strange cinder block wall that did not seem right. Homeless people were also known to use them for shelter. Iownit - do you have any maps of the tunnels? The poor girl was very mentally disabled and disfigured and could not speak only moaned and had oral secretions / drool perfusly leaking from her mouth. Rummor has it that the tunnels are still there and if you go in them on the day, and time exactly when she went down you can still get into the building "she comes back from the dead." Edgewood has a lot of TB patients and who knows what lurks in those old pipes. Apparently, it was also used as part of an initiation for the new principals who were made to run through the pitch black tunnel before assuming their new post. BTW has anyone seen that "silo" mentioned by Banffspring? However, they were a wild life preserve full of deer flies and mosquitoes and poison ivy, so few with good sense choose to venture far from the sun lit hospital grounds. After another 30 minutes, it soon became evident that the only logical place the pipes could run to is, Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital (NRPH), The Detroit Preservation Movement's Gettysburg, The "Lost" Neighborhood of Detroit (Part 2), The "Lost" Neighborhood of Detroit (Part 1). There was a worker many years before who fell through the same shaft. All of these stories were politically incorrect and based off of uneducated fears, but as a child in the late 70searly 80s, it used to give me the heebie-jeebies when my parents drove past the place. Everything has gone very smooth. It is because of trespassing that the history of this institutiuon was preserved. "ARC, which we are assisting, was formed to help restoresome of what wasdone to harm the environment and it's promoting and teaching stewardship so we don't make the same mistakes over and over.". Rachel Woodward, I purchased the historic seven story Masonic Temple, built in 1925 in Grand Island. we found a fire hydrant in the middle of a field and a large excavated area with a drain or pipe in the center of it. I was on a lockdown unit K2-A 2nd floor that faced haggerty and schoolcraft. When I was going to Sequoia High School, the former principal once told me about a tunnel that supposedly exists under the school. There was only one steam tunnel for Hawthorn, with pipe trenches connecting it to the cottages. The farm we lived on was exactly behind the NSPH on 6 mike rd. What You Told Us About Your Hometowns Hidden Tunnels. Went into the tunnels way back in '75 the first time, and the power was still on. You can rest that as a Velux factory-direct trained installer of sun tunnels that excellence is part of everything we do. People would park their cars in the lot, and board the trolley for a ride underground to the store. Northville lies between Wayne and Oakland County, with 5,970 residents just 29 miles north of Detroit and is referred to as the Switzerland of Wayne County. I remember how sick I felt. Not so much a legend, but a running joke of the seniors at the local high school. The rumors are that more extreme cases were kept in isolation cells down there. More than likely the tunnels were built to help employees of the church to walk back and forth between the temple and their offices. They can only try to clean up the mess. Northville Tunnels Northville Township Michigan 1974-1998 No Trespassing? What impresses me is that theyre still working to please us on some very minor issues we had after the job was done. What makes the story particularly appealing is that its reported some of them have flooded, and its possible to go kayaking under the mountains. Posted By: Harrry Re: Northville Tunnels. The Potawatomis saw the settlement of the area by whites as in intrusion on their traditional ways of life, and resorted to petty thieving to demonstrate their disapproval. Upon searching the house he was renting, police discovered a key to the campus subterranean system of heating tunnels that could be accessed from many of the university buildings, leading investigators to reason this was the key to his elusive disappearing act that had frustrated the community for so long. Once in you did not see light for at least a day or more. i went through the tunnles feb 2008 flash lights of course i found a picture in one of the buildings of a dead man who died in the tunnle, THE DEER PARK "SOLDIERS OF DEATH"ARE NOW THE "SILLY OLD DELINQUENTS". Cottage 3 was all boys. I KNOW THE TUNNELS LIKE THE BACK OF MY HAND I LIVED IN THEM HALFORD. To hide their shame, the Snells sealed the tunnel that led to the school and imprisoned their deformed children within it, where they eventually died, hidden away and unloved. He wouldn't take it though. the TUNNELS the MONKEY LADY lived in them chicken bones and shit all over the place !! I no he wouldnt have let those things happen if he new what was going on! 1928-1932; Press Photos 1930-1982; Historic Photos . They'll only go a certain distance into it. 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According to legend, the Snells also had a penchant for incest that led to several Snell children born with hideous physical deformities. At 7,000 feet, it can get very cold during the winter. . They listened to what I wanted the finished job to look like, and they had good suggestions and ideas on how to accomplish those goals. 26 bus down with it! Osband was told by pioneers that in 1819, Tonquish's son, in a dispute of over bread, had shot and killed a settler named Sergeant who lived near the Rouge. One day there was a small sinkhole that developed in the sidewalk in front of my aunts house. Tom Laws, Back in the 50s there was a tunnel going from a parking lot to Leonards Department Store. The house on Winter Hill Road was owned by gangster Arthur Simon Flegenheimer AKA Dutch Schultz, and he used the passage as an escape route. He and Chad had been here once before, and had popped a lid near the corner of that cottage looking for a tunnel entrance. Often, residents of cities dont even realize there are hidden subterranean spaces right beneath their feet. Hello,I'm Joe;Joe B.I use to work at Grumman,Entenmanns,SUNY state colleges,now I'm a bus driver soon to be in a hospital as a full time worker.I'm in the Huntington area.All the time Edgewood hospital was standing,I never went there;only once me and this girl went there,but were told we couldn't stay by security people who must've been guarding the place after all the vandalism over the years. We also turned on lights on just about every floor in 102 that still had intact wiring almost everything worked back then. and are grounds for membership suspension, no questions asked. Thanks Ryan for helping me select the right shingle color, and suggesting the copper trim for the chimney. Is Boote optimistic the river will be daylighted? Recently, we asked Atlas Obscura readers to tell us tales of hidden underground passageways from their own hometowns, and the results were even better than wed hoped. Fish aren't likely to swim through it, either. Sarah Kate, Between 1999 and 2000, the campus of Central Washington University was plagued by a masturbating mystery man who would appear out of nowhere, do his thing in view of some unfortunate female victim and then disappear before he could be caught. I happen to work at Thursday's Place which was a restaurant inside the hospital. Personal flame wars,
The buildings that are now the high school and the gym were built during the Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Deal era. "My dad and one of his buddies would fasten flashlights to the front of their canoes and paddle through the tunnel as a challenge," Turnbull recalled. Theres also supposedly a tunnel between the city county building and the city library (where the jail use to be) to transport prisoners between them. Most of the tunnel entrances were filled with dirt before the concrete caps were put over the welded manholes. Play northville tunnels and discover followers on SoundCloud | Stream tracks, albums, playlists on desktop and mobile. Thank You!! I was a patient in 84 on unit K2-A.who remembers these names, staff member Arch tapallion with the fu-manchu moustache, pickle the art teacher, norm autin the school teacher, genie the librarian, dr paisley, dr john horvath, nurse carol tovis, bernard the ward supervisor, staff member mike brown..we all had a crush on a girl on K1..gina spurling..we would all sit in the window and watch her play tetherball and droolbig pool, little poolpatient sidney bright that lived in the sick bay and when we went to kensington park he drown and diedso sad..the following patients- paul czyika, stuart feltz, danny persall, brian dourghty, kelly mccoy, deaf craig, paul "bam bam battleship' bagozzi who had a head trauma from a hockey game, richard "pepper" due, cory burrell, tim king, william perdue, sam centers, deaf miles, the list is endlesswho remembers state shopping? The demolition phasewill begin in summer 2022. We are impressed and satisfied with the final result. It still exists as an archive of that era. Township voters approved the acquisition of the 300-plus acres around the property in 2009, at a cost of $23.5 million. The steam pipes had been removed. Tunnel legends abounded there, ancient & modern. I always wanted to get moved up into the cottages as that was like a resort to us in lockdown. I went to school on campus in the main hospital which is locked down. ?,, yeah cause the cement filled tunnels are the only gigs they can get these days. Powered by, Courtesy of Northville Historical Society, Around 1958, W.J. These caves once held a full restaurant that was a favorite hang out of mobsters, and the tunnels probably made for an easy escape route. Keep your comments
We spoke with about four companies for bids on our project (complete siding, shutters, gutters) and were very happy with our choice great company. It was said that a tunnel allowed the army of Aksum to travel eastward to conquer the city then called Bur (now the archaeological site called Metera). How long will it take to rejuvenate the river? The land acquisition process for Hines Drive began in the 1920s with the goal of developing a pattern not unlike the Bronx Parkway Plan of New York. They're filled with dirt under the slabs. In fact, by the Cowan Rd. Here are a couple of those stories for the rest, head over to Atlas Obscura. The statute of limitations is over. You sent us stories of old bootlegger tunnels, forgotten service networks, insane asylum escape routes, and more than a few cases of steam tunnels lurking beneath the halls of academia. Adam gave a lecture that exposed many local citizens of the lost history of the school. Brannigan Cheney, When I was growing up in a small town in Southern Illinois there were rumors that the grade school and high school were connected by underground tunnels. I would recommend McClinch & Sons, just cover your things. The former hospital had issues with trespassing in the years before it was torn down. Im skeptical that the tunnels still exist, but its a legend that most people here know about. The building itself was obviously seldom frequented by workers, but down in the spillway was even more lonely, left long to the ravages of Hines hungry, ever-advancing vegetation. Later on, they cut power to the complex around late '77 after a fire at the then still-occupied medical staff residences in building 155, which was NOT connected by any tunnels. something to do with the subject matter of the page. Skip Dahlgren, Underneath the LDS Temple in the middle of downtown Salt Lake City there are tunnels that spread out in all directions. Ken Wagner, I lived for several years in Eritrea, when it was part of Ethiopia. School systems from all over the metro area used to bus their problem children in for special ed classes, but that stopped under Gov. In 2007 we were asked by the Northville Township Historical Society to give a presentation of the history of the school. The Northville Tunnels forum slowly faded away and fell out of favor. Whoa!! the last 4th of July before the crown burned, we blew out a security car headlight from the roof with M80's. One, that two kids from Shattuck in the 1950s found the tunnel entrance under the school and went exploring. This was back in the 90s. Thanks again! Activities incluede horse riding (use 8 mile entrance), biking and numerous walking trails. Contact reporter Ed Wright at eawright@hometownlife.com or 517-375-1113. We would visit him every other weekend and he would come home on alternating weekends. 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