Sterling in Greenville in Greenville County, South Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
City Hospital ⎯⎯⎯ Greenville General Hospital
Photographed by Tom Bosse, May 14, 2022
1. City Hospital / Greenville General Hospital Marker (Front)
Inscription.
City Hospital, also, Greenville General Hospital. . (front)
City Hospital. City Hospital, founded here in 1912 and later renamed Greenville General Hospital, occupied most of the block bounded by Memminger, Mallard, and Dunbar Sts. and Arlington Ave. by the early 1950s. The Ladies Hospital Board and the Greenville Hospital Association, founded in 1896, acquired a building on this site, previously a sanitorium, in 1911. It opened as City Hospital in January 1912.
(Continued on other side).
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Greenville General Hospital (Continued from other side). The hospital was sold to the City of Greenville in 1917. Expansions from 1921 to 1953 increased capacity to more than 600 beds. Renamed Greenville General Hospital in 1935, it became a city-county hospital in 1948 and flagship of the Greenville Hospital System by the 1960s. Most services moved to the new Greenville Memorial Medical Campus on Grove Road by 1983, and the historic buildings here were demolished in 1998.
(front)
City Hospital
City Hospital, founded here in 1912 and later renamed Greenville General Hospital, occupied most of the block bounded by Memminger, Mallard, and Dunbar Sts. and Arlington Ave. by the early 1950s. The Ladies Hospital Board and the Greenville Hospital Association, founded in 1896, acquired a building on this site, previously a sanitorium, in 1911. It opened as City Hospital in January 1912.
(Continued on other side)
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Greenville General Hospital
(Continued from other side)
The hospital was sold to the City of Greenville in 1917. Expansions from 1921 to 1953 increased capacity to more than 600 beds. Renamed Greenville General Hospital in 1935, it became a city-county hospital in 1948 and flagship of the Greenville Hospital System by the 1960s. Most services moved to the new Greenville Memorial Medical Campus on Grove Road by 1983, and the historic buildings here were demolished in 1998.
Erected 2012 by Greenville Hospital System Employees, Physicians, and Volunteers. (Marker Number 23-51.)
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Science & Medicine. A significant historical month for this entry is January 1912.
Location. 34°
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50.419′ N, 82° 24.919′ W. Marker is in Greenville, South Carolina, in Greenville County. It is in Sterling. It is at the intersection of South Memminger Street and Hamilton Avenue, on the right when traveling north on South Memminger Street. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Greenville SC 29601, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Upstate. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Deep South, in Appalachia, and specifically in Southern Appalachia. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the original Cherokee Nation, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
2. City Hospital / Greenville General Hospital Marker (Back)
Photographed by Tom Bosse, May 14, 2022
3. City Hospital / Greenville General Hospital Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on February 16, 2023. It was originally submitted on May 26, 2022, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 7,186 times since then and 635 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on May 26, 2022, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
