 In 1889, Myra Brookfield bequeathed her home and property for the purpose of establishing a hospital.She stipulated that the community-at-large raise $15,000 to buy equipment and hire staff within three years of her death.In 1893, the house was too small for the hospital, so it was sold and the profits were put toward the purchase of a bigger facility – a former parsonage in downtown Morristown, used as a makeshift hospital by George Washington more than 100 years earlier.