Christian Street Hospital

Christian Street Hospital is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, dedicated 2005.

924 Christian St., Philadelphia

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First Civil War U.S. Army Hospital, founded May, 1861. Here Drs. Mitchell, Keen, Morehouse, and others used electric current, drugs, and other experiments in pioneering treatment of nerve and related disorders. Closed 1865.

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1836 · Philadelphia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1856 · Philadelphia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1865 · Philadelphia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Philadelphia County, City. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Philadelphia, 1856, covering the location of Christian Street Hospital, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Philadelphia, 1856, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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