The flat above the A. S. Putnam Drug Store on the corner of S, Cedar and Walnut served as a hospital from the 1890’s to late 1930. SCHS Photo.
In the days before large medical facilities and regional trauma centers, Manistique’s sick and injured were cared for in small, private hospitals, usually owned by the physician who treated patients there. During a 1949 interview, Dora (James) Middlebrook recalled some of Manistique’s earliest hospitals. Dora was a pioneer resident of Manistique, having visited in the 1870’s with her father, Ebenezer James, founder of the Jamestown mill. She later became the bride of William Middlebrook.
