Location: in Charlotte
County: Mecklenburg County
Original Date Cast: 2025
The building housing North Carolina’s first hospital for treating Black patients stood at the corner of Mint and Graham Streets in Charlotte from 1891 until 1996.
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Opened in 1927 to serve Black patients during Jim Crow era. Housed nursing school, 1929-1954. Operated here until it relocated in 1966.
Physician; innovator in treatment of tuberculosis. Served in Europe, WWI; operated a sanatorium here, 1908-1918.
Medical maverick, radio and advertising pioneer, candidate for governor of Kansas. Boyhood home stood across the river.
Nurse anesthetist. Her WWI service influenced British medical corps to train female anesthetists, 1918. Home was here.
Leader in fight against tuberculosis in North Carolina, Superintendent of State Sanatorium in Hoke County, 1914-24. His birthplace is 400 ft. W.
Pioneer orthopedic surgeon; founded hospitals for crippled children; chief surgeon of Warm Springs (Ga.) Foundation. Birthplace 80 yds. east.
State institution for disabled children, 1921-1979. R. B. Babington was its first president; O. L. Miller, founding surgeon.
Under Dr. A.S. Piggott, manufactured medicine for Confederacy, 1863-65. Remains are 2 mi. S.
Pioneer female physician. Gained national reputation from work at Cornell medical clinic, 1922-1970. Born 2/10 mile N.