Oxford Town Historian Vicky House will present the history of the Oxford Veteran's home at 6 p.m. on July 25 in the historic District 2 Schoolhouse Museum located at the intersection of County Route 206 and 27 in Coventry. The sign now stands at the current facility. (Submitted photo)

CHENANGO COUNTY — Would you like to learn more about the history of the New York State Veterans Home in Oxford?

Coventry Museum Director Kurt Riegel will host Oxford Town Historian Vicky House, as she presents the history of the Oxford Veteran's home at 6 p.m. on July 25 in the historic District 2 Schoolhouse Museum located at the intersection of County Route 206 and 27.

The veteran's home in Oxford was the very first New York State Veterans Home and was opened 126 year ago.

The home today described itself online as a 242 bed facility, situated on a sixty acre site with spectacular scenic views of rural country land. The home provides state of the art medical, nursing, psychosocial, and rehabilitative services to residents. The home cites several academic affiliations including the Upstate Medical Center College of Medicine/Clinical Campus at Binghamton.

House said, “There is a quote engraved on a plaque at the entrance of the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Department of Veterans Affairs. It was spoken by President Abraham Lincoln at his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865. He saw a need; he had a vision.”

The quote reads: “Let us Strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nations’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.”