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The hospital's rebuilt original 1774 building as it stands today in Williamsburg, Virginia. Eastern State Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia. Built in 1773, it was the first public facility in the present-day United States constructed solely for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. The original building had ...
Founded by Dorothea Lynde Dix on May 15, 1848, it was the first public mental hospital in the state of New Jersey. It previously operated under the name New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton and originally as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum. [24] 1850 San Francisco General Hospital: San Francisco, California
The first hospital founded in the Americas was the Hospital San Nicolás de Bari in Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional Dominican Republic. Fray Nicolás de Ovando, Spanish governor and colonial administrator from 1502 to 1509, authorized its construction on December 29, 1503. This hospital apparently incorporated a church.
In 1890 the hospital's name was changed to State Hospital at Morganton, a name it kept until 1959. Patients were used to construct roads on the property, and establish and maintain the gardens and grounds. By 1893 the hospital's holdings would encompass over 300 acres (120 ha). During the early 1900s the hospital expanded greatly.
Welcome Turner Jones (November 13, 1865 – January 12, 1940) was an American physician, who founded with three other African-American physicians the first black hospital in Newport News, Virginia. The hospital later became the Whittaker Memorial Hospital .
The hospital was founded in 1897 by nuns from Philadelphia. They treated 115 patients in the first year, “many of whom were loggers, ranchers, and gold miners,” according to a document ...
James Edward Shepard (November 3, 1875 – October 6, 1947) was an American pharmacist, civil servant and educator, the founder of what became the North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina. He first established it as a private school for religious training in 1910 but adapted it as a school for teachers.
Johnson C. Smith University. Johnson C. Smith University is a private nonprofit institution in Charlotte. It started as the Freedmen’s College of North Carolina in 1867.