At Your Library: Cumberland historic hospitals on display
“Cape Fear Valley Medical Center” or “VA Hospital” those are probably the answers you’d get if you asked Fayetteville residents what they first thought of when asked about local medical care.But, our history begins much earlier. Cumberland County deeds from 1766 list Joseph Howard as “doctor of physic,” and Thomas Reed McDaniel as “surgeon,” and property owners in the village of Cross Creek.There were no hospitals […]
