Western Military Asylum

Creation Date

1853-03-03

Dissolution Date

1858-10-19

Entity Type

Organization

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, home for aged and infirm U.S. military veterans. Established by U.S. Statute. An act was further passed to sell the buildings and grounds during 1860-61.

John P. Deeben, Caring for Veterans in the Nation’s Capital: Records of the U.S. Soldiers’ Home in Washington, D.C., 1851–1943, Spring 2015, Vol. 47, No. 1, Genealogy Notes, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2015/spring/soldiers-home.html#page-header (accessed December 16, 2019).
Martha Stephenson, "Old Graham Springs: At Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Once the Most Fashionable Summer Resort in the State—Now Only a Memory of the Past." _Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 12, no. 34 (1914): 25-35. www.jstor.org/stable/23367448 (accessed December 16, 2019).
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1924), 81.

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