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I had a child there in 1980. Sadly this year was the last time the hospital will be used for an airsoft event. Document # 001. Confederate veterans stalked the halls of a specially built annex, constructed in 1901 (burned in a mysterious fire in 1918). could you please email me. Lots of memories from this building, practicing physicians. Many of the internal infrastructure systems of the old Mercy Hospital/Parkview, were in desperate need of repair and replacement. Standing on a two-block parcel on a high hill overlooking Grove Street, the old Mercy Hospitals blue tile front wall still beckons drivers off of the busy Clay Street thoroughfare. State funding also runs out for Matty Hersee Hospital in Meridian and South Mississippi State Hospital in Laurel, Mississippis other two general charity hospitals. The company that owns it has numerous times tried to get something going with the building but no one wanted anything to do with it. for many years. Was there an earlier hospital named Mercy? An abandoned Civil Rights Era icon The Ben Moore Hotel, pictured here, opened its doors in 1945 and in 1951 became the first hotel in Montgomery, Alabama to welcome African Americans as guests.. Janne, Awesome, I hope you find it and would like to keep in touch with you to hear all about Kuhn. I was born at Mercy on October 30, 1965. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I was born here in the summer of 1991. We could not find the basement entrance. I also live in Wildwood and I am a neighbor of Mrs. Farr, retired RN who was the night supervisor for years. And to top it off, the University of Mississippi operated its first medical school here in the academic year 1910-11. I suggest everyone go and explore while you still can This place is gonna be demolished sometime in January or February of this coming year. I am able to feel and hear some of the dead but I talk to them normally. Mabus, however, vetoed the support. Theres a lot of history in those buildings, I know and I was the last baby born there! Do not know if that is true or not. Approx 50 percent whtie, 50 per cent black.). You know back in those days they really did not know how to treat psychiatric patients. 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. Daisy was very young at the time of the War for Southern Independence but remembers the soldiers. However, I was genuinely surprised to see how solid the two buildings are, apart from the missing windows, doors, and vandalized interiors. Also please make contact with David Gibson, a local citizen who lives behind the hospital. Delivering babies? I am what they call a sensitive. Does anyone know if this was the only hospital open at that time in Vicksburg? I got my ears pierced there when I was about 12 years old, Is this place still standing? No pictures, no records, no nothing. Todays Head line in VIcksburg Post, February 28th, 2016; A Step Closer? I did not deliver you on December 30, 1980. 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I personally love the place and hate to see it as it is but there is only so much we can do. The only charity hospital that seems to be in sound condition is Matty Hersee. 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. Can anyone come and go threw this building ? Home Architectural Research Abandoned Mississippi: Vicksburgs Mercy Hospital. So am I. Im wondering if its still standing and if its fenced off. SHE WAS A WONDERFUL LADY. I is very important. Ann Hinston was a clinical instructor, as was Philomena Smartt. The hospital proper is divided into nine parts. Went yeserday with a couple of friends. In the years since, shes had the privilege of having her articles appear in several publications, such as Parents & Kids Magazine and Girl Meets Strong. The city is brimming with spooky sites, including McRaven, Mississippi's most haunted house. Not only haunted, the home is historic, too. You can certainly go there. Some of them lived in our subdivision, Wildwood. My husbands birth certificate says DOB 12/02/45 at Mercy Hospital in Vicksburg. Kevin. I was born at Kuhn August 4, 1962. After the move to the new River Region Medical Center in February 2002, plans were in place to sell the building to be used for different purposes. Im sure, given the community that has grown up around the Kuhn Memorial Hospital post, that there are people out there who will help us with our dates and facts. My first child was born, Nov. 2001,at Mercy which was named Parkview at the time. Three months later a friend had her baby at River Region. Mabus, a Democrat, wants to close Matty Hersee Hospital in Meridian, South Mississippi State Hospital in Laurel and Kuhn Memorial State Hospital in Vicksburg. she passed quite a few years ago.Just wondered Janne Debes if you may Id love to get permission to go all out and do a full fledged investigation at night but there are, as I know, safety concerns both human and natural. I have a deep respect for its history and would like to turn it into a Christian Community Center. Jen has a new novel out through NineStar Press called You'll Be Fine available on Kindle and paperback. I was born December 30, 1980. Dee, you were born there in 1981? Your email address will not be published. I prowled around in there all by myself and heard/saw nothing. I cant find it on Google Maps! I wonder what really happened. I finally found this place on Google mapsnow, it is ok to go and look around and take pictures of it? Today, the effects of the closing are still prevalent. interesting. My dad worked for ICRR, so that house was close to his work. 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. Among them, some former psychiatric hospitals are shrouded in controversy over patient mistreatment. Love Mississippi? Thanks Teresa. One visitor even made a whimsical, tongue-in-cheek. So, have you heard about this abandoned hospital in Mississippi? I could have delivered you! (And much more,) The Vicksburg Medical Center located on I-20 was owned by HCA in Nashville and Parkview was own by Quorum in Brentwood TN. That is interesting. Thank you! I would really like to hear your stories!! The building site was graded so as to provide the main entrance and ambulance entrances to the out-patient division at one elevation and all service entrances on the west side at a lower elevation. They were like two angels in my young mind. I would to see something done with the building. Probably both the 1959 and the 1962 buildings were designed by Raymond Birchett, Vicksburg architect and great-grandson of the original Dr. Birchett. Ward worked there for years. Mother is Sara Lynn Smith at the time..,As a matter fact.. My father meet my step mother there..cynthia renee dickerson. could have been when it first closed but as you can see vandalism has taken its toll on the building and it would prolly take several million dollars to do something of use for it now with all practical purposes it would be cheaper to raze this place and build another rather than try to restore this now.. just another wasted government building. Someday Ill post some stories about people there! I was born here in August of 1985 and was delivered by a lady names Marilyn A. Johnson, CNM. VPD wasnt doing their part a couple years back and copper theives got in and tore it up. New Orleans also had a charity hospital. Hi Kevin. The state charity hospital in Jackson was on North State Street, just north of Fortification, on property now taken up by Baptist Hospital. Dont believe me? Mabus proposed re-channelling the hospital funds into Medicaid so they could receive federal matching funds. I had inmate friends who showed me everything. The same story of abuse and neglect. I had to great great aunts that died in state hospitals here in Texas. I have been in prison in Texas for biting a police officer when I was 17 years old. I am interested in knowing who your mom and sister were since they also went to the apparent same school. Is this building for sale, and if so, how much? Fort Massachusetts 30.21236, -88.97214 History: In 1847, the United States declared the Ship Island a military reservation, and Congress authorized the construction of a fort nine years later. Holly Bluff is about 3- 40 miles from Vicksburg, but actually it is much further, roads are bad, etc. Was there the morning of 12/29/2010 watch the tires for broken glass. Contact . pest house is still there.. it has been somewhat restored and families still live there.. Ah! My Dads name was Tom. Joanne I just came across your post.would you or.the nurse midwife you are in contact.with worked in the year 1978? I pray that someone opens that building and use it for Gods glory. It also OK'd $2.13 million for Matty Hersee Hospital, $2.03 million for Laurel's South Mississippi State Hospital and $99,642 for the State Eleemosynary Board. I can go a step farther to tell you how wonderful they were. I just got a feeling in there.????????? It later tended to Civil War soldiers and lost several staff members during the Yellow Fever outbreak in 1878. Thanks. would you be interested in sharing some of your stories that happend in khun hosptial. If you get caught in the gates you will have trespassing charges pressed on you and you will go to jail. Tremendous Entertainment is planning to explore Kuhn in February for paranormal phenomena. Amanda, I started working there in 1980. But somehow that too may fall . A nursing home was the final medical facility to open on the island, and in 1968, the last to close. 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. It was me and an orderly who happened to be an conscientious objective who was serving his time. My mom my 2 girls just went into parts of the building yesterday, mom said she could not find anything that looked like the doors would have been wide enough to get a gurney into a morgue. This is all so interesting. by adding your comments (insightful, silly, but always respectful) and sharing important stories from your neck of the woods. Completion of the new Mercy Hospital-Street Memorial, three-million dollar structure, along with the Street Clinic and other adjoining facilities, is heralded as an important step forward for Vicksburg and this entire area. Who is E.L. Malvaney? Just when Tekashi 6ix9ine thought his legal troubles were behind him, Miami artist Yung Gordon claims in a lawsuit that the rapper and his producer ripped off his work in the track "Stoopid." Your post only showed your first name and I have been trying to place you. Didnt Dr. Potnis marry one of the midwives? One of the first babies to survive the surgeries he had. I was just wondering what type of EVPs you got. 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