1,476 Comments for Letchworth Village

ohh and i went in the power plant today and its not scary except for the face that when your on like the 3rd floor, the stairs start to creek and you feel like your gonna fall

right by the gate at the beginning of the road to this power plant, theres a door in the ground to all the underground tunnels that connect all the buildings in the Letchworth. I just found it today and i feel like a pimp :D

..and made lil thingits

I wondered what happened after the tv series ended,looks like Thing and Cousin It got together.

Does anybody know of a way to get into the hospital building? I've been there probably well over a hundred times, and not once have i gotten into the morgue. Somehow cops stopped us and told us to get lost every time. We're probably going to take a trip over there sometime this weekend so it would be really helpful if somebody could help me out by then :]

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if anyone can help me by pointing me in the right direction i thank them. my e-mail address is f.walker22@yahoo.com. thank u

i just found out my mother was in letchworth thats were i was born, now im doing reseach on it

Thanks Mary!

I think it's a little known fact that quite a number of institutions in the USA participated in the eugenics movement, even after the war (as late as the 1970s). For those looking for more information, an interesting site which includes background research and statistics on compulsory sterilization by state can be found here: http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/

I am AMAZED! I am taking a class about policy and etics for my MSN and we were talking about eugenic sterilization. When I was about the ages of 6-12, my family were members of St. Gregory Barbarigo Catholic Church in Stony Point. On Sundays they had mass outside at Letchworth and then we did some arts and crafts with the residents. We bonded very well with 3 specific residents, Catherine, Sadie and Rocco! They came to our home for dinner on many Saturdays and Sundays. My mom and dad asked to see their records one time and without HIPPAA then- were allowed to do so. ALL 3 and MANY THERE- were abandoned with no familt information or contact. I have only the FONDEST memories there. Thanks for these moving photos- I remember the enterences looking like this, but the grounds, back then were absolutely gorgeous. I hope you don't mind, but I have asked the rest of my calss- NURSES working on their MASTER DEGREES FROM ALL OVER TEXAS- to view your site!

nice unit i hope some one picked it up before they demolishied the bulding.

I go to Letchworth all the time. I was there today in fact taking pictures. I go there almost every weekend to photograph the buildings and have TONS of pictures from almost every building in the entire village.
I love your pictures. Let me know if you wanted to see some of mine.

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Yeah I live near letchworth ville the door was probably blocked off

as a state employee hired 12 years ago i am not shocked by these photos.... i am disgusted. i am the 4th generation to work for omrdd in my family and cant imagine what these people had to go through. if not for willowbrook being exposed who knows what these people would be living through now. my great grandmother refered to the consumers as her kids still at 80. i never understood it until i went to work there. since i was a kid they were always around. they came to our home. they spent holidays in our homes as part of our family. whether mildly or severely mentally retarded they are people too and the vast majority of these people were dropped there by there families and never saw them again. we are their families. you dont know until you have walked a mile in someone elses shoes...... the love that they are able to feel and return in their own way is just like the love you would share with your child who you care for and love every single day. if we dont go to work they notice.... you can tell from the reactions you get from them when you get "home". because that is what it is to them. when you're not there, you're not home and when you get home they are there with open arms or full of smiles for you. this place doesnt exist anymore. the vast majority of these people live in houses just like us and aside from the wheelchair van in the driveway you wouldnt know the difference.......be more accepting of them. they are people too and they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect just like you and i. they dont deserve to be stared at or made fun of because they are different................

I've been to the insane isylum there. It's very interesting. The cops have the first few buildings boarded up, but if you go back far enough, you can go inside. It's not breaking and entering because the last buildings have no no tresspassing signs, and the dors are wide open. Plus, If you go up the hill, there's this old house that's actually really pretty. I think it belonged to the owners daughter. Its beautiful, and has a great view. Peple should try to rebuild it. It would look sooo pretty.

I thought it was clogged