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The U.S. Army Review ran this story about Northington General Hospital in 1945. The publication explored the high value of soldier/patient care in Tuscaloosa while praising Northington's long-term rehabilitation innovations.
Note the soldier aimed…

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The World War II Army hospital in Tuscaloosa was named in memory of Lt. Col. Eugene Garland Northington, born Feb 12, 1880 in Prattville, Alabama, and who was a former student at the University of Alabama. He received his medical degree from Tulane…

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The Northington General property was built as a temporary Army hospital in World War II. Work started on the hosptial in the early part of 1942 and eventually sprawled over 160 acres. After three years, the Army left at the end of the war and…

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Druid City Hospital's School of Nurses, Class of 1933. The nursing School graduated its first class in 1924.

The picture shows all 5 students who graduated in 1933, with Gladys Parks in the middle.

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This 1912 charter of The Medical Society of Tuscaloosa County indicates that the group was originally chartered in 1877. Physicians in the area were granted membership by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama.

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Groundbreaking of the South Wing of Druid City Hospital
On the ground - Col. Bryan Culberson and possibly Mr. Bramlett (?)
On the machine - Congressman Walter Flowers, D.O. McClusky, Frank Moody, Charles Snyder (behind post).

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Governor George Wallace along with Jim Ford and Mary Davis at Druid City Hospital to celebrate the opening of the new south wing.

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Governor George Wallace speaks at the opening of the new south wing of Druid City Hospital. University of Alabama President David Matthews is in the background on the right.

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Mary Finlay (wife of Dr. Bill Finlay) with Dr. Gordon Davis at the unveiling of Dr. Davis' portrait.

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Right to left are: Morris "Munny" Sokol, Sue (Mrs. T. H.) Patton, Ozzie Bell Herrod (wife of R. Henry Herrod), Dr. H. Gordon King, and Carl Looney.

This group met to plan the DCH Foundation Ball which took place on November 17, 1984 at the…
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