When Camp Lejeune was new, there was no hospital within 50 miles of the base, so the Navy built one at the tip of Hadnot Point. U.S. Naval Hospital New River went up on a 144-acre tract in 1942 and...
The hospital on Portsmouth's Hospital Point took its first patients in 1830 and has never stopped running since, which makes it the oldest continuously operating hospital in Navy medicine. That date...