Health resorts and private sanitariums were popular in Florida since the beginning of the state's emergence as a tourist destination during the 1870s.
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The Battle Creek Inn was built during 1926-1927 by Curtiss/Bright Properties at a cost of $275,000. It opened as the Pueblo Hotel on December 15, 1927. The owner of the hotel, aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, later sold the hotel to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg for $1 million to use as a health spa/resort [Hotel Country Club?]. It was later renamed Battle Creek Inn and reopened in 1930.
The State Board of Health established a bureau to oversee facilities such as quarantine wards for smallpox and yellow fever, regional clinics, and laboratory testing facilities across the state, although state-run facilities were never accessible for all Florida's citizens until after World War II. The Board opened wards for crippled children in 1912 in both St Luke's and Brewster Hospitals in Jacksonville.
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Established in 1911 with 19 beds. For years the hospital was the only public facility for blacks. The hospital closed in 1971.
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Back: Dr. W.M. Bevis, director; Miss Summerford, chief nurse; Miss Pearl Trammell. Front: Miss Willie Taylor; Miss Earhart.
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Located at 955 N.W. 3rd Street, it was built in 1925.
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From left: 2. B. F. Moseley 3. Dr. Alonzo Lashbrook Blalock.
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Fort Barrancas was the last incarnation of a series of forts built on the same site in the Wilmington area of Pensacola. The fort was utilized during the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the Second World War.
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Dr. Joseph Y. Porter, first state health officer.
