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When the department was created it assumed responsibility for the Ohio Veterans Homes (OVH). The homes provide direct nursing home care at facilities in Sandusky and Georgetown as well as domiciliary living to qualified veterans in Sandusky. The Sandusky home opened in 1888 to care for veterans of the American Civil War. The home in Georgetown ...
1880's "Soldiers' Home" in Washington D.C. (Roose's companion and guide to Washington and vicinity (1887)) The first national veterans' home in the United States was the United States Naval Home approved in 1811 but not opened until 1834 in the Philadelphia Naval Yard.
This institution was the predecessor of the Ohio Veterans' Children's Home. In 1870, the State of Ohio assumed control of the home. The Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home was originally located in a rented building in Xenia, Ohio. In 1869, Xenia residents provided the GAR with 150 acres of land to build a permanent facility. [2]
Location of Washington Township, Sandusky County, Ohio Coordinates: 41°24′11″N 83°14′46″W / 41.40306°N 83.24611°W / 41.40306; -83 Country
You don't actually have to register — just send a card or letter to one of the many veterans residing the state's two veterans' homes or to staff members who care for those veterans. The program ...
Captain Joseph Barriere, and his wife Julie Barriere, Lt.Col. (Ret), both of Fremont, speak to the crowd during Fremont's Veterans Day ceremony at the Sandusky County Courthouse on Saturday.
Sandusky and its surrounding area. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sandusky, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register ...
Battle Mountain Sanitarium in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was established on March 3, 1865, in the United States by Congress to provide care for volunteer soldiers who had been disabled through loss of limb, wounds, disease, or injury during service in the Union forces in the American Civil War.