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|Body= In 1930, [[Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center|President Franklin D. Roosevelt]] consolidated and coordinated veterans benefits through the creation of the Department of Veterans Affairs. That same year, construction was underway at the Leestown Road facility. In 1934, the facility was converted to a veterans' neuropsychiatric facility which prompted the construction of many recreational facilities on the campus including a softball field, horseshoe pits and a miniature golf course.
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|Body= To supplement the rapidly overcrowding asylum at Kalamazoo, the Michigan state legislature established the new [[Pontiac State Hospital|Eastern Asylum for the Insane]] in 1873 (renamed to the Eastern Michigan Asylum before it even opened), to be located in an eastern part of the state near the growing population center of Detroit, where many of Kalamazoo's patients where coming from.  
 
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Revision as of 04:47, 10 December 2023

Featured Image Of The Week

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To supplement the rapidly overcrowding asylum at Kalamazoo, the Michigan state legislature established the new Eastern Asylum for the Insane in 1873 (renamed to the Eastern Michigan Asylum before it even opened), to be located in an eastern part of the state near the growing population center of Detroit, where many of Kalamazoo's patients where coming from.
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