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Waverly Hills Sanatorium
The Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a closed sanatorium located in southwestern Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky. It opened in 1910 as a two-story hospital to accommodate 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients. In the early 1900s, Jefferson County was ravaged by an outbreak of tuberculosis (the "White Plague") which prompted the construction of a new hospital. The hospital closed in 1962, due to the antibiotic drug streptomycin that lowered the need for such a hospital.
Waverly Hills has been popularized on the television show ''Ghost Hunters'' as being one of the "most haunted" hospitals in the eastern United States. The sanatorium was featured on ABC/FOX Family Channel's ''Scariest Places On Earth'', VH1's ''Celebrity Paranormal Project'', Syfy's ''Ghost Hunters'', Zone Reality's ''Creepy'', the British show ''Most Haunted'', ''Paranormal Challenge'' and ''Ghost Adventures'' on Travel Channel.〔(Ghost Adventures : TV Shows ). Travel Channel (2011-02-28). Retrieved on 2011-11-27.〕 Also popularizing Waverly Hills was the film ''Spooked: The Ghosts of Waverly Hills Sanatorium'', released in 2006, which purports to document paranormal sightings at the site.
Plans have been developed to convert the sanatorium into a hotel and conference center.〔Davis, Alex. ("Spooky Waverly Hills may return as hotel" ), ''The Courier-Journal'', 7 August 2008.〕〔(Renovations hopeful for haunted hotel ), Fox41.com〕
==History==
The land that is today known as Waverly Hill was purchased by Major Thomas H. Hays in 1883 as the Hays' family home. Since the new home was far away from any existing schools, Mr. Hays decided to open a local school for his daughters to attend.〔Detert, Fred. ("How Waverly Hills Got Its Name" ), ''Waverly Herald'', circa 1953.〕 He started a one-room schoolhouse on Pages Lane and hired Lizzie Lee Harris as the teacher.〔 Due to Miss Harris' fondness for Walter Scott's Waverley novels, she named the schoolhouse Waverley School.〔 Major Hays liked the peaceful-sounding name, so he named his property Waverley Hill. The Board of Tuberculosis Hospital kept the name when they bought the land and opened the sanatorium.〔 It is not known exactly when the spelling changed to exclude the second "e" and became Waverly Hills. However the spelling fluctuated between both spellings many times over the years.〔(Postcard ) (with 2nd E), located in display case in the laundry building at Waverly〕〔(Postcard ) (without 2nd E)〕〔(Endowment booklet ) (with 2nd E)〕
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