Thayer U.S. Army General Hospital

Thayer U.S. Army General Hospital is a Tennessee historical marker in Nashville, Davidson County.

120 White Bridge Road, Nashville, Tennessee

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In 1943, during World War II, this was the site of Thayer General Hospital. The hospital was named for Dr. William Sydney Thayer (1864-1932), who entered Harvard College at age 16 and was a brigadier general in the U.S. Army during World War I. Built at a cost of $3,500,000, the hospital had over 1600 beds and served over 17,000 soldiers. German POWs from Tullahoma's Camp Forrest were assigned manual labor jobs at the complex. In 1963 Thayer closed, and by 1966 the site was cleared.

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1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1797 · Tennassee Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1932 · Hermitage, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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