My dad worked for ICRR, so that house was close to his work. Was Kuhn considered the de facto black hospital for Vicksburg and the surrounding area? A nun who taught me as a 4th grade student at St.Michaels elementary school in Biloxi taught me as a student nurse at Mercy. Sam P, Opinion Page Vicksburg Post, January 01st, 2016; Our Opinion. Would love to go back when I have more time. Shubuta Bridge, Shubuta cmh2315fl/Flickr Abandoned for years, this abandoned bridge in Mississippi has a sordid past that will forever remain a part of Shubuta's history. At that time We had a burial of a time capsule and an old New Orleans type parade on the campus. My mom was an inmate worker there too in the 80s. Contact . I dated one of her sons back in 95.she was such a sweet dear woman! I agree! Hi Kris, unfortunately the expense of restoring this would be astronomical. The move was completed on February 17, 2002. They were like two angels in my young mind. The best during its time. I adore this landmark. That is interesting. We are working to take back the model from the overgrowth. Dr. Guerrero, Dr. Mitchell, Dr. Ferris, Dr. Gus Street, Dr. R.A. Street, Dr. Dominick, and Dr. Emery were some of the names I can recall. My daughter was born at Kuhn on 11/22/84, and I didnt realize until a few years later after the hospital had closed that theyd put 11/23 on her birth certificate. Theres also an option to participate in a paranormal investigation at McRaven. However, knew everyone, Mrs. Farish, Johnston was a kind gentleman, and a caring Doctor. As a Presbyterian, I was quite intrigued by the Sisters and all the trappings of Roman Catholicism like crucifixes and religious statuary then spent time here during high school as a Candy Striper along with Helen Carter, and a couple of girls from Utica and Raymond, I think. These include the Administration, Adjunct Facilities, including Pathology, Radio and X-Ray Therapy, Hydro Therapy, Electro Therapy, Pharmacy, Nursing Facilities, Nursery, Formula Preparation, Surgical Department, Obstetrics, Emergency Service Facilities. Hello to anyone interested in the old Mercy Hospital. I did feel sad, since I loved working there. . Constructed in the Georgian style of architecture at a cost of $1 million in 1937, the new red-brick hospital featured a slate roof, limestone columns, and a copper copula. Had sort of planned to write some some sort of history but became to much, We at first lived in the nursing home on Cherry Street and moved to the nurses home on campus at the hospital about 1960. She died in isolation and was my patient. You know back in those days they really did not know how to treat psychiatric patients. I was born at then parkview in March of 2001, so I know for sure it was open then, hope this helps on timing! We do not need another empty building. I grew up in Vicksburg and never knew about this place..I am extremely intrigued. It turned out to be a vast amount of informaton. that is any hospital with a history of abuse and neglect. (function(){var src_url="https://spshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js'playList=519366027&height=&width=100&sid=577&origin=SOLR&videoGroupID=155847 . There were plenty of white patients when I worked there. The hospital proper is divided into nine parts. China, Dr Said Elisa, and Dr Lemia. I was born there in 1959. Did you ever find out what happen to the medical records from the hospital? If I recall correctly, the hospital is not owned by the state anymore but a private developer. instead, MCC is opting to demolish it sometime this year or next year. My husbands birth certificate says DOB 12/02/45 at Mercy Hospital in Vicksburg. It can be done, Tiffney. Heres just part of one of the articles from that issue. Authorities Ask for Public;s Help in finding Jail Escapee. Do you know whether or not they put the time on the birth certificates back then? The new 200-bed hospital gives to this section the newest and most modern facilities. Address: 63 Hattie Winston Rd, Lumberton, Mississippi, 39455 Website: Email: nightmarehollowms@gmail.com Phone Number: 6018523327 Distance From You: MAP IT NOW Type Of Attraction: Haunted Houses Scare Factor: Suitable for all guests and families (HALLOWEEN FUN) Join our email list to receive discount offers and updates. Keep in mind, we are trying! I have a question I would like to ask. I know she has a record of all her women too. Preservation in Mississippi, 2009-2017. Did you know Johnny B. Taylor? I personally love the place and hate to see it as it is but there is only so much we can do. thank you so much! Unfortunately, many have been torn down in recent years, with their hisotry all but wiped away. This place is straight up. Being born prematurely, I lived my first six months of life in a polio ward, of all places, until my adopted parents came and got me from the hospital. She delivered my son there on Oct 8 1980. The Vicksburg Post Tuesday, February 02nd, 2016 The building is wide open, so like the Mayville KY hospital. Join the discussion, talk back, agree, disagree, etc. I recall the inmates working here alongside my mom. It made me proud to work at such a facility. My pediatricians were Kimble Love and Dr. Horn. The Kuhns building should be destroyed, the weather,rats,and other creatures made more of a mess of what that building was in its past. I had inmate friends who showed me everything. Dr. Lewis knew me and allowed me to learn there during the summers and school holidays. According to MDAHs database, it was closed after University Hospital opened in 1955 and demolished sometime before 1962: https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/prop.aspx?id=11983&view=facts&y=856. My first child was born, Nov. 2001,at Mercy which was named Parkview at the time. The haunted house proved to be a success as it raised more than $30,000 and attracted several thousand visitors during the month it was open. My mom in laws grandfather was there in 1913. In this I am in hopes of opening a Private Christian School along with using the Hospital for a Christian Retreat center and the street clinic for community classes such as art, paint, community choir and band, cooking and canning classes etc for the community! The State of Mississippi also has records of your birth, parents, etc. Ive been so busy since leaving Kuhn in 1983 that I havent looked at any of that material since. Dr. Bob Ford, Dr. Rusty Barnes and Dr. Geri Weiland are still practicing. We always had curious sounds that we could not figure out where they came from. Buddy Butts Park, 6180 McRaven Rd, Jackson, MS 39209, USA. He loved working there and the other employees. Just destroy it. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Hi Kathy! My mom was a corrections officer there in the 80s up until it was closed. God! I was born there on 19 of nov 1980. I those days they let us do many things. i am very interested in all of this paranormal activity, could you give me more description of what yiu have seen and heard of! Originally named Vicksburgs City Hospital, the facility was later used during the Civil War to treat injured soldiers, and in 1878, played a major role during the Yellow Fever Epidemic. My name is Mary. The city is brimming with spooky sites, including McRaven, Mississippi's most haunted house. Not only haunted, the home is historic, too. 61. I should say I caught the baby. I would love to try to find her is possible! It was Parkview Hospital when she was born. There were several people who might have. Its an eye sore,if it is haunted set them to wear they need to go. I would like to know where she is buried. The out-patient division is built adjoining the hospital but on a separate site. We provided excellent care. Ghost hunters searching an abandoned Mississippi hospital for the paranormal found the body of a missing 69-year-old woman. Sadly Meridian Community College opted NOT to have classrooms or dormitories in the old Matty Hersee Hospital. Other state-run charity hospitals (an interesting fact given the recent health care debate) were at Jackson, Laurel, Meridian, Natchez, and Biloxisurely there were some north of I-20? My facebook name is Mary Irelandforeva. I've . We have done a second, more thorough walkthrough, courtesy of the owners, just recently, and were very impressed! Just curious. It was staffed by very committed people while I worked there. I graduated from Mercy in 1960. That is also a very haunted location. I don't claim the rights to Kelly Clarkson's "Never Ag .more. I think she lives up north somewhere. I wandered through the ruins remembering myself hurrying along the hallways to deliver a baby or to see a patient in the emergency department. I went to nursing school (RN) at Mercy and stayed there for 45 years. Dee, somewhere in the stuff I have packed for moving, I have a notebook recording the names of all the women whose babies I delivered. Dr Gerrierro, not sure of the spelling, was in his internship at mercy Hosp and was on call and held clinic at Kuhn. Some hospitals that date back centuries have fallen into disrepair. Abandoned Mississippi: Vicksburg's Mercy Hospital By ELMalvaney on March 28, 2012 ( 96 ) Standing on a two-block parcel on a high hill overlooking Grove Street, the old Mercy Hospital's blue tile front wall still beckons drivers off of the busy Clay Street thoroughfare. Kuhn State Hospital started life as Vicksburgs City Hospital back in 1832, in response to a smallpox outbreak. Abandoned and practically destroyed by a fire, it's just a shell of the state-of-the-art facility it once was. The history of the Marine Hospital dates back to 1798 when President Adams established the Marine Hospital Service to care for injured and disabled seamen working on the Mississippi River, and was a precursor to the Public Health Service. Check out this Asbestos factory that was converted into a green office building. Joanne I just came across your post.would you or.the nurse midwife you are in contact.with worked in the year 1978? I can go a step farther to tell you how wonderful they were. Cathy I see from your post that you went to school at Mercy in the mid 60s. One was Terrell State Hospital and the other was Rusk State A nursing home was the final medical facility to open on the island, and in 1968, the last to close. I would really like to hear your stories!! That was a number of years after I work there. South Mississippi Charity Hospital in Laurel is also among the abandoned places in Mississippi. I was wondering if you by chance knew them? I vividly remember both she and Dr. Jarrett! The Administration suite is adjacent to the main front entrance. Two nurses whom she worked with and loved were BoBo, Dr. Jarretts nurse, I believe, I was born here, July 1967, as was my sister four years earlier. We heard YEARS ago that some attorneys from Jackson purchased it. I moved to Wildwood in 1995 and boy was it convenient with working at Mervy. I would be interested and maybe talking to you on facebook Messenger about some of the things you may have witnessed. Blaine. Lots of precious memories. Then 1970 having my daughter there a patient of Dr. Horn, then going to LPN school followed by RN school there and working with the wonderful Shirley Farish and the sister of Mercy, who made me proud to be a nurse and go as far as possible, I was really upset when I visited last year and saw the hospital closed. I have been retired from nursing since 2003. I was watching a eposide of ghost asylum and never knew the history they spoke of. We explored the kuhn hospital ruins on 7/19/14. Are people allowed to go in? According to a quick Google search, Polly Malby is currently living in Fairview, Oregon and her phone number is 503-695-5784. I was born there in June of 1967. Fond, fond memories. It opened in 1917 and closed in 1989, after 72 years of service. I feel certain that the asbestos would have to be removed among other things. Maybe great things will come out of it soon. Still not good for the buildings, though . Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Gov. They went as far as watching my child so I could complete RN School, and I will never be able to say thanks enough to them, and the whole hospital staff of Mercy. Susan, Dr. Jarratts nurse was named Bobo BUT she was not a Sister of Mercy. In later years I had 3 nephews that were born in that hospital and my friend and I would walk down the corridor of the clinic carrying my nephews and we would get comments about how we were too young to be having babies. There should be some form of black history documentation noted for the first black nurses employed at Khun. Shuttered in 1935, the asylum sat on what is now the site of the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson, reports The Clarion-Ledger. They just cant seem to get a bite on the building. I would love to get access to my medical records. I knew ms Lydia Bryant several years ago! http://greensource.construction.com/green_building_projects/2013/1311-ambler-boiler-house.asp. Read on for more history on this eerie abandoned hospital in Mississippi, and be sure to check out the video! My Dad passed away in 2005. They have poured alot of money in it since we started taking care of the place in 06. In 1922, Poveglia's abandoned hospitals and other structures were converted into an asylum. I just thought of something else. And to top it off, the University of Mississippi operated its first medical school here in the academic year 1910-11. On Friday, state funding runs out for Kuhn, causing the charity institution to shut its doors. I walked through that front door almost daily for 3 years, 1980-1983. We held clinic Monday through Friday. The hospital was constructed by Seth E. Giem and Associates General Contractors with Raymond Birchett, native Vicksburger architect and engineer. We are used to renovating buildings in need of restoration. We walked the whole hospital and took pictures, got alot of orbs and several apreritions , got black shadows and voices. That hospital/clinic was like another home to me. i felt the strong feeling of death and grief. The booklet is located in the MDAH subject file KUHN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL STATE CHARITY. So convenient all the yrs at Mercy which ended up being 42 . We have been going through the extensive sets of blueprints and bluelines for this hospital which are contained in the Birchett-Montgomery Architectural Records. We have several types of activities from removing dirt, debris on the panels to cutting down and removing invasive trees. My mother, Tess Marsalis, worked at the Street Clinic for Dr. Gus Street. Janne, do you remember a nurse midwife named Polly! Its definitely lost history the Old Court House has some records. . They paid what they could. Think it will be a grand adventure to rebuild this great historical landmark. Love the history lesson as Vicksburg has so many. Author. (LogOut/ I wish I could say the same about hospitals today. She is in her nineties. The experience I had at Kuhn led me to a life long love for medicine and a 30 year career as a Registered Nurse in the operating room. She apparently died there and they shipped her body to her home town, however, my grand parents said it was not her body. I am just now reading this because Ive been so busy since January 1 with a sick sister. Warren County Martin Pace said Officer went looking in several areas of town, adding Deputies are working double shifts utnil McCloud is caught. Physical abuse was one of the ways they used to control the patients. Not that I remember. An abandoned hospital full of paranormal activity in one of America's most haunted cities is currently being demolished. Mabus, however, vetoed the support. 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