History
The current Bayley Seaton campus was constructed around the Marine Hospital Service (MHS) buildings at the site. On October 1, 1831 Staten Island's first hospital, the Seaman's Retreat, was opened here, to serve retired Naval and commercial sailors. Three of these original colonnaded structures remain, dating from the 1830s and 1840s. The MHS was to provide medical treatment to Naval personnel. On May 6, 1857, the Port of New York Quarantine Hospital in Tompkinsville, about a mile north along the shore, was attacked by a local mob, fearful of the mostly immigrant detainees. The next year, on September 1, 1858, a mob again attacked the hospital, burning it down. A new quarantine center was created on Swinburne Island (a fill off the South Shore of Staten Island, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Fort Wadsworth). In 1874, some of these resources were transferred to the Marine Hospital Service buildings at what is now BSH. Also housed here was the Seaman's Retreat, which would later become Sailors Snug Harbor, when moved around three miles (5 km) northwest in the 1883. At that point the entire complex was operated U.S. Marine Hospital Service.
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