Third TB Hospital, 1937
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Built in 1937, the Flower Mission Memorial Hospital was the organization’s third hospital for tuberculosis patients. The institution’s first patients arrived from Louisville, Kentucky, where nearly 70 percent of its residents evacuated following the Great Flood of 1937, which devastated the Ohio River Valley.
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This file appears in: Indianapolis Flower Mission
Indianapolis Flower Mission
A women’s charity organization, the Indianapolis Flower Mission served the sick poor of the Circle City for over one hundred years. Part of a national movement, the charity began in 1876 when Alice Wright, the daughter of a prominent railroad…