Saint Thomas Hospital

On April 11, 1898, at the request of Nashville Bishop Thomas Byrne, the Daughters of Charity opened St. Thomas Hospital on this site in the former home of Judge J.M. Dickinson. Named for Byrne's patron saint, the hospital began as ...

Harrisburg Hospital

Harrisburg Hospital, the city's first public hospital, opened in the former South Ward School building in 1873, beginning a course that today makes Harrisburg a major health and research center. The school faced Mulberry Street (now vacated) which paralleled the ...

The Depot Field Hospital

“The sick and wounded are as promptly and carefully taken care of as those in a City or Town, and probably much better.”

- Gen. Rufus Ingalls, USA

Across the cove from you, on the site of the modern hospital, stood the ...

The American Red Cross - Harvard Field Hospital Unit

(September 1939 - July 1942)

This plaque acknowledges the public spirit of Harvard University and the dedication of the staff of the American Red Cross - Harvard Field Hospital Unit, who provided and staffed a pre-fabricated hospital sent to Salisbury, ...

Harrisburg State Hospital

The first State mental hospital in Pennsylvania. Opened in 1851, a result of efforts by the noted humanitarian, Dorothea Lynde Dix, to improve this State's treatment of the mentally ill. The hospital is on the wooded hills east of this ...

St. Joseph's Hospital

In 1841, under the inspiration of Sister Catherine McAuley of Dublin, Ireland, a group of Sisters of Mercy came to the United States to establish infirmaries and schools to minister to the poor and sick immigrants. In 1845, the Sisters ...

Aiken Hospital / Aiken County Hospital

Aiken Hospital

The first public hospital in Aiken, at the corner of Richland Ave. and Vaucluse Rd., was built in 1917 for the

Aiken Hospital and Relief Society, with donations from members of the “Aiken Winter Colony.” The City of ...

Mower General Hospital

Described as the largest U.S. Army hospital of its day: designed by noted architect John McArthur, Jr. Here, wounded Civil War soldiers were cared for , Jan 1863-May 1865. On 27 acres extending to Stenton Ave., it had some 3,600 ...

Hospital Steward’s Quarters

The chief steward was responsible for maintaining and running operations of the Post Hospital under the directions of the Chief Medical officer. Today, the building is the NJ Audubon Society’s Sandy Hook Bird Observatory.

Fort Hancock was in operation from 1895 ...

Federal Hospital

The 1865 home of Wm.

Smith, 100 yds. E., was

used as a hospital for

Union troops in the

Battle of Averasboro,

March 15-16, 1865.

Marker is at the intersection of Burnett Road (North Carolina Route 82) and Ross W Road (North Carolina Route 1801), on ...