Evansville Shipyard/Gibson Moore Mine/Evansville Marine Hospital

Evansville Shipyard/Gibson Moore Mine/Evansville Marine Hospital. . In February 1942, responding to the United States' involvement in world war two, Evansville was selected as a site for an inland ship yard. Within the first four months the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company laid the keel on the first L.S.T. The shipyards employed over 19,000 people and produced 167 L.S.T.s; more than any other inland shipyard building facility. Courtesy of the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Sciences , The Gibson Moore Mine (formerly Ingleside Mine) map illustrates the extent of mining under the Ohio River. The mines stretch out under the Ohio River and across into Kentucky. Courtesy of Stan Schmitt , The Evansville Marine Hospital was built at Ohio Street and Wabash Avenue in 1856 as a series of government hospitals along the Ohio to care for river men working in the western waters. Throughout the Civil War, the facility served as a military hospital treating soldiers and prisoners. From 1872-1893, the Sisters of Charity operated the structure as St. Mary's Hospital, the first public hospital in Evansville. From 1893 and until its destruction in 1914, the building was a tenement housing facility. Courtesy of the University of Southern Indiana Archives