Record #:

3137

Author(s):

Rozear, Martin

Abstract:

Because of a need to provide medical care to seriously ill seamen on the Outer Banks, Congress authorized construction of the state's first hospital. It was built between 1846 and 1847 in the town of Portsmouth, on Portsmouth Island.

Source:

Tributaries (NoCar Ref VK 24 N8 T74), Vol. Issue 6, Oct 1996, p6-9, il

Subject(s):

Hospitals--History; Portsmouth Island--History