National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Togus, Ma. 1885. A.F. Poole. Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection Boston Public Library

Citizens were welcomed to the grounds of the first branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, set on the grounds of a failed resort named for the mineral waters on the grounds. Visitors, including Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, could picnic, go to band and theater performances and even walk through the zoo. Located on the outskirts of Bangor, Maine, it saw up to 2,000 visitors each year after an electric trolley line from was completed. The location is now the Togus VA Medical Center. The only National Cemetery in Maine is on the grounds. It provides the final resting place for over 5,000 veterans who served from the War of 1812 to the Korean War and was closed to new burials in 1961.