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Site of Railway Hospital |
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Columbus,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
29° 42' 18.83013999984",
-96° 32' 36.30678"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
Dr. Robert Henry Harrison (1826-1905), graduate of the Botanico Medical College, Cincinnati, and Alabama Medical College, moved to Columbus in the 1870s, while the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio (later Southern Pacific) railway was building Columbus- San Antonio line. Physician to G.H. & S.A. president T. W. Peirce, he was 1880-87 medical and surgical director, Atlantic Division of the Southern Pacific. In 1880 he built a hospital for railway employees at this site. Staff included Drs. J. H. Bowers, A. S. McDaniel, and R. H. Harrison, Jr. About 1886, hospital burned, and was not rebuilt.
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
Site of Railway Hospital Historical Marker Location Map, Columbus, Texas
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