Yongyuan New Village

A military dependents’ village located beside the Zhongxingling Military Base (中興嶺營區) in Xinshe, Taichung, built in two phases from 1953. No. 1 Village (一村) held 71 army households; No. 2 Village (二村) added 33 more in 1962 with help from the National Women’s League (婦聯會). At its peak the settlement housed 600 to 700 people in about a hundred homes of some seven ping each.

The original site adjoined a Japanese colonial era sanatorium, reopened by the Nationalist government as the Second Taiwan Tuberculosis Sanatorium and later Army Hospital No. 805 (國軍805醫院). Most residents chose compensation over reconstruction, and in 2004 the Ministry of National Defense paid relocation grants and reclaimed most of the land rather than redevelop the village. Demolition began around 2010 and most of the oldest structures have long been razed. A weathered gate still stands on the hillside approach from the military base.