N&W in 1910--Office building

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In 1908 the Commonwealth of Va appropriated $40,000 to establish the first
Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Catawba, west of Roanoke. Did the N&W Catawba
branch exist at least in part because of the sanitorium?
 

Craig Close 
Balimer, Merlan 
OK: Far West Catonsville 
OR: Greater Oella 

 

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>>Anyone know what a "home for consumptives" is?<<


 

Consumption was the old name for tuberculosis, so consumptives were people
with that disease. Before antibiotics, tuberculosis was essentially a death
sentence. Mountain air was believed to ease the symptoms so TB sanitariums
were frequently located in mountainous areas.  

 

Rob doorack
 



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