HISTORICAL MARKERS GUIDE: COLORADO COUNTY
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Site of Railway Hospital Dr. Robert Henry Harrison (1826-1905), graduate of the Botanico Medical College, Cincinnati, and Alabama Medical College moved to Columbus in 1870's 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. Pierce, 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. Corner of Spring & Live Oaks Street |