New technologies such as the telegraph and the railroad improved communications and transportation and helped tie the disparate sections of the country together into an increasingly unified capitalistic market. Territory gained from the Texas annexation, the Mexican War, and Oregon settlement added vast tracts of land and resources to the United States.ย Americans moved west, […]
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Hospitals
1862 – Drs. Thomas H. Pinkerton and J.C. Tucker received a contract for $2,000 per month to provide care – food, medicine, personnel, and housing – for county patients.ย Storey County Hospital consisted of two buildings: one to house up to 60 male patients and a second for 14 female patients. The insane were hospitalized […]
Fire Department
The Fire Department of Virginia numbers amongst its members the leading men from almost every profession and trade in the city. Board of Delegates of the Fire Department of Virginia : J. V. B. Perry, Geo. W. Birdsall, Sam E. Wetherill. Virginia Engine Company, No. 1, was first organized in March, 1861. A number of […]