PART I
Cottage Grove has claims of being on the cutting edge of natural birth, and innovations that happened here first a century ago.
Shortly after World War I, Dr. S.M. Wendt set up his private Cottage Grove General Hospital upstairs in a building at 632 E. Main St., where the Rural Organizing Project office is today.
The building consisted of surgery, consulting, waiting rooms and eight patient examination rooms. It was there that Wendt…
