Austin, TX, United States
Brackenridge Hospital. When Edwin Waller surveyed the Austin townsite in 1839, he sat aside this block, in what was then the Northeast corner of the city, for a hospital. The site lay empty until 1884, when the City of Austin and Travis County jointly opened a 20-bed, two-story facility known as Cit
y/County Hospital. During the early 1900s the City purchased the County's share of the hospital and assumed full responsibility for its operation. In 1912 Dr. Robert John Brackenridge (1839-1918), a r
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