The House on The Hill: A Spatial Study of Visitors to the Jackson Sanatorium, 1858-1914

Academic article published by the Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes (pioneeramerica.org), a peer-organized historical-geography society journal, devoted specifically to the Jackson Sanatorium in Dansville, NY. Traces the institution across its full 1858-1914 span: James Caleb Jackson's 1858 purchase and renaming of the failing Dansville water-cure as Our Home on the Hillside; his background as "an active abolitionist and supporter of the early women's rights movement"; the institution's treatment approach ("treated with hydrotherapy; the use of water for pain relief and medical treatment") combined with "careful regulation of daily life, including diet, exercise, rest and recreation, with cheerful and helpful social and religious influences"; and describes the institution as an advanced hydrotherapy practice for the late 19th century. States that the institution filed for bankruptcy in 1914, and attributes the water cure's decline to the era's "medical advances" in favor of "conventional medicine." Fetched directly from pioneeramerica.org on 2026-08-04.