[Gay State Conservative]

I think I read something...or saw some documentary...on this once. Towns and villages in Upstate NY being seen as refuges from some illness or another...

[kearnyirish2]

There is a small island on a lake in north Jersey (Ramapo Lake?), where the wealthy former owner of much of the current parkland put his family during an epidemic in the early 1900s. The ruins of the home on the island are supposedly still there.