Haywood County

County History:

Haywood

Region:

Western

Quick Facts

Special Topics

Special topics and events from the county's nursing history.

District Twenty-Six Scholarship Project
- Valentine's fund-raising project in Haywood County for nursing scholarships.
- 1965 newspaper clipping featuring the scholarship project:

Resources

Additional resources for further research.

Health Care Institution

Books

Anderson, N. & Anderson, W. (1994). A heritage of healing: the medical history of Haywood County. Waynesville, NC: Waynesville Historical Society.
Haywood County Genealogical Society. (1994). Haywood County Heritage North Carolina Vol. 1. Canton, NC: Haywood County Genealogical Society. This book decribes the work of Rev. Hannah Powel and the Universalist Friendly House MIssion which sponsored a community health nurse to work in the county.

Archives

Canton Hospital (circa 1920) [photograph]. Available from the Canton Area Historical Museum. The Canton Hospital operated between 1917 and 1922. It was set up during a typhoid epidemic with the help of Reuben B. Robertson, general manager at Champion Fibre Company.
North Carolina Emergency Relief Administration, J. S. Kirk (Jacob Sydney), 1909-, edited by, Walter A. Cutter (Walter Alrey), 1902-, edited by, and Thomas W. Morse, edited by [photographs]. Available through UNC's Documenting the American South. Picture 5 is of an Emergency Relief Act (New Deal) nurse on a home visit to family with black water fever in Haywood County.
The history of public health in Haywood County : interview with Ruybe Bryson. Available through UNC University Libraries.

Compiled by:

Phoebe Pollitt

North Carolina Nursing History