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The New York State Veterans' Home at Oxford (formerly the New York State Woman's Relief Corps Home) is an
old soldiers' home An old soldiers' home is a military veterans' retirement home, nursing home, or hospital, or sometimes an institution for the care of the widows and orphans of a nation's soldiers, sailors, and marines, etc. United Kingdom In the United Kin ...
located east of the village of Oxford in
Chenango County, New York Chenango County is a County (United States), county located in the south-central section of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 47,220. Its county seat is Norwich, ...
. The home was established for
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veterans and their wives so they would not be separated in old age. The
Woman's Relief Corps The Woman's Relief Corps (WRC) is a charitable organization in the United States, originally founded as the official women's auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) in 1883. The organization was designed to assist the GAR and p ...
(W.R.C.) was an auxiliary of the
Grand Army of the Republic The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (United States Navy, U.S. Navy), and the United States Marine Corps, Marines who served in the American Ci ...
Civil War veterans organization. In the 1890s the Woman's Relief Corps campaigned for the establishment of a co-ed old soldiers' home. Their efforts were rewarded in 1897 with the opening of the state soldiers' home just outside Oxford. By 1911 they had expanded to five buildings. By the 1970s it was decided to replace the old wood-frame hospital building with more modern facilities. The new one story main building was opened in 1981, but four "cottages" (older buildings) are also still available. The home is located on New York State Route 220 and is situated east of the village of Oxford on hills with beautiful views overlooking the village and the Chenango River, and below the former
New York, Ontario and Western Railroad The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad founded in 1868. The last train ran from Norwich, New York, to Middletown, New York, in 1957, after which it was ordered liquidated by a U.S ...
. The veterans home is situated on and includes 242 beds. Residents receive state-of-the-art medical, nursing, psychosocial, and rehabilitation services. The home also has an affiliation with the Upstate Medical Center College of Medicine/Clinical Campus at Binghamton, New York."Veterans' Home at Oxford" at http://www.nysvets.org/homes/oxford/ (accessed 8 April 2010).


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