1913
Three patient cottages are constructed at the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium
Three cottages were constructed at the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium near Terra Alta in 1913, providing space for 60 patients. The construction developed the institution authorized in 1911; it did not mark the sanitarium’s initial establishment.
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West Virginia Department of Health, “Hopemont Hospital History”; West Virginia Archives and History, West Virginia Memory Timeline, record 8228
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Gore Hospital at the State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Hopemont, June 1927
This 1927 photograph shows the later Gore Hospital building; it does not depict the three cottages constructed in 1913.
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