End of a Vision

"On April 22, 1959, the board of the Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute (N.A.N.I.), better known as Madison College, voted to start construction of a new hospital facility and to hire a professional fundraising team. The minutes called for 'immediate steps to be taken to put into operation plans for a central unit from which additions may be made from time to time as needed.'

"The hospital, dedicated in June of 1908 as Madison Rural Sanitarium, had fulfilled a dual role in the life ...