Historical Marker
Original King's Daughters Hospital
Brookhaven, Lincoln County · Mississippi
Erected 2021
Brookhaven's first hospital began as a remodeled house. Dr. John Harvey Johnson, who saw the need in 1904, bought the John Wright property, a two-story wood-frame building, and fitted it with an operating room and patient rooms; Dr. Dudley Watson Jones joined him as partner. The first nurse, a Miss McCaughan, came from New Orleans, and Mrs. Charles Heuck organized a linen shower for sheets, blankets and towels. Three patients were in beds by June 9, 1909. Wilson Infirmary at Pearlhaven, opened a year earlier, had been the first hospital in Lincoln County.
Where it stands
31.57729, -90.44441 · Directions
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