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Star City Snapshot

by Staff Star Herald
17 years ago

1920 – The Northern Maine Sanatorium opens on the Reach Road to provide an isolated treatment center for what is one of the top causes of death in that era, tuberculosis.     This Centennial fingertip fact is brought to you by the Presque Isle Historical Society and the Star-Herald.

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