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On
June 22, 1932, fire ravaged the Henry W. Putnam Hospital in Bennington.
The hospital had been serving patients in southwestern Vermont for
fourteen years, and was critically important.
Prior
to the hospital’s opening, people from the Bennington area
in need of healthcare had to take a train to either North Adams,
Massachusetts or Troy, New York. Henry W. Putnam Sr. and Jr. recognized
the community’s need, and donated the money necessary to construct
the $85,000, 35-bed hospital that would bear their name.
The
fire on this day was so extensive, the hospital would not reopen
for 11 months.
Image
courtesy the Vermont
Historical Society.
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Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington.
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