County History: HaywoodRegion: Western Quick Facts County seat: Waynesville, NCPopulation: ~62,317 (2019 estimate)Part of Asheville metro areaHaywood county website Special Topics Special topics and events from the county's nursing history. District Twenty-Six Scholarship ProjectValentine'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 Canton Hospital, 1917-1922 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
