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St. Leo's, Greensboro's First Catholic Hospital  Dead men tell no tales, but those helped by Greensboro’s history of good medicine and medical care do, and the University Libraries at UNCG is partnering with three other area institutions on a project to make the records of the history of medicine in the Gate City--a total of thirteen unique archival collections--better known and more accessible to scholars, students and community researchers. insurance plan offered by St. Leo's Hospital (click to enlarge) Today's Greensboro Historical Museum, built as the First Presbyterian Church, served as a hospital during the Civil War Early in the twentieth century, for example, St. Leo’s, the first Catholic hospital in the city, was also home to the first of Greensboro's many nursing education programs. Building on this tradition, Wesley Long Hospital, founded by Dr. John Wesley Long and now part of the Cone Health System, had an early program for teaching ...

Stephen Catlett of the Digital Projects unit in the University Libraries was featured on this video on WFMY TV regarding the army depot in Greensboro during World War II.  For more on the subject, see the Textiles, Teachers & Troops projec t.

Greensboro history buffs - start your engines. The Textiles, Teachers, and Troops website, written about earlier on this blog is now available for public use.  After celebrating the launch of the website with a program at the Greensboro Historical Museum on Tuesday that featured a visit by North Carolina's Secretary of Cultural Resources Susan Kluttz and a keynote by Deputy Secretary of Archives and History Kevin Cherry, the partners on the project are ready for you to take a look at the website and provide feedback, especially on resources that you find especially useful.  Tell us what you learned and how the website helps you gain a better understanding of Greensboro's history.  Please email us at ttt@digitalgreensboro.org . Here are some photos from the launch. (L-R) State Librarian Cal Shepard; Deputy Secretary of Archives and History Kevin Cherry; Greensboro Historical Museum Director Carol Hart; Secretary of Cultural Resources Susan Kluttz;, Dean of Unive...

Greensboro--Elm St. at RR Crossing Looking North from a Greensboro College scrapbook, of student Mabel Pitts, circa 1920.   Courtesy of Greensboro College How did Greensboro become the city it is today?   From 1880-1945, three distinct forces helped transform the city: textiles, teachers, and troops.   Now, six important area institutions have come together to create a free online tool that documents that transformation and makes it available to the public.   Two upcoming programs will highlight that tool and are free and open to the public. On Tuesday, April 8, a public launch of the digital project Textiles, Teachers, and Troops: Greensboro 1880-1945 will be held at the Greensboro Historical Museum at 7 p.m. In addition to demonstration of the project website and a brief outline of Greensboro history during the period, Dr. Kevin Cherry, Deputy Secretary of Archives and History in the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources will speak. ...