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Togus VA Medical Center is a facility operated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in Chelsea, Maine. The facility was built as a resort hotel, and housed Union veterans of the American Civil War prior to being converted to a veterans hospital. It was the first veterans facility developed by the United States government.
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Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) [1] known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type.
The railroad was built to offer transportation for American Civil War veterans living at Togus to the nearby City of Gardiner. [1] Tracks of 25-pound steel rails ran five miles from Randolph, Maine (across the Kennebec River from Gardiner) to the veterans home at Togus. [2] [3] Train service began on 23 July 1890. [4]
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Togus VA Medical Center: VA Maine Health Cate: Chelsea: Kennebec Yes 1930–present Active: Waldo County General Hospital MaineHealth Belfast: Waldo: Yes Active: York Hospital Independent: York: York Yes Active
The site that is now the Togus VA facility is the first veterans facility established by the United States. It was established by an act of Congress in 1866, to provide a space for "any worthy soldier" who was "suffering such a degree of disability" so as to need such a facility. [3]
State Route 226 (SR 226) is a state highway located in southern Kennebec County, Maine.It begins at SR 27 and SR 126 in Randolph and runs 5.50 miles (8.85 km) northeast to SR 17 in Chelsea.