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The move of the Druid City Hospital from the old Army hospital building at Northington Campus in Tuscaloosa to the new hospital building in 1953 was covered by Life Magazine.

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The move of the Druid City Hospital from the old Army hospital building on the Northington Campus to its new building two miles away was covered by Life Magazine in its January12, 1953 issue.

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In 1952, the old Army hospital at Northington in Tuscaloosa was used as a temporary site while the new Druid City Hospital was being built. The move to the new Druid City Hospital took place on Dec. 11, 1952 and Life magazine documented the move in…

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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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