​Site of
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Marker Text: ​Dr. Robert Henry Harrison (1826-1905), graduate of the Botanico Medical College, Cincinnati, and Alabama Medical College moved to Columbus in the 1870s, while the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio (later Southern Pacific) Railway was building Columbus- San Antonio line. Physician to G.H. & S.A. president T.W. Peirce, he was 1880-87 medical and surgical director, Atlantic division of the Southern Pacific. In 1880 he built a hospital for railway employees at this site. Staff included Drs, J.H. Bowers, A.S. McDaniel, and R.H. Harrison, Jr. about 1886, hospital burned, and was not rebuilt. (1973) 

Marker No: 4168

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 29.705656, -96.542969

Location: Spring & Live Oak Streets, Columbus