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Bellevue Place

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Established in 1854 as Batavia Institute, Bellevue Place began as a private school. In 1867 it became a rest home and sanitarium. In the summer of 1875, Mary Todd Lincoln, the widow of President Abraham Lincoln, was a patient there.
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