Carver Memorial Hospital

Carver Memorial Hospital is a Tennessee historical marker in Hamilton County.

Hamilton Co, Chattanooga, West M. L. King Blvd. (600 Block) median in middle of street

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Carver Memorial, a hospital for Negroes, opened on June 18, 1947, in the Old West Ellis Hospital Building. Named for George Washington Carver, this health-care facility is said to have been the first municipally-owned, tax-supported hospital in America which was staffed by Negro doctors, nurses and other personnel for the care of Negro patients. Carver Memorial closed in 1962.

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Historical maps covering this location

1891 · Middle Tennessee Campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Map of the Battlefields of Chattanooga and Wauhatchie (E. E. Betts, Chickamauga and… (Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)
1936 · Chattanooga, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1940 · Chattanooga, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1941 · Chattanooga, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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