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Barracks Quadrangle Rear View, National Soldiers' Home

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $9.95
Original Price: $15.95

Stock #:617540
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Togus
State: Maine (ME)
County: Kennebec
Publisher: The Post Fund Store
Postmark: 1915 Mar-31
Postmark City: Windsorville
Postmark State: ME
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
This building is on the site of the original Togus Springs Hotel, that shortly after the close of the Civil War was purchased by the US Government for a military asylum. The cost of the original grant of land (1092 acres) and buildings was 50,000 dollars. The total valuation of buildings and land at the present date is over 875,000 dollars, and the home covers 1735 acres.

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