"C" is for Cannon Street Hospital and Training School for Nurses. In 1896 Alonzo G. McClennan called a meeting of Charleston's black physicians to discuss the establishment of a training school for Negro nurses. Within months, the city's black community had raised the funds to purchase a building at 135 Cannon Street and fund the operations of a facility owned and administered by the colored people of Charleston. The Hospital and Training School for Nurses was the first medical institution in the state for African Americans. The mortality rate for black Charlestonians was twice that of whites so the hospital provided a clinic with free treatment and medicine for children. Never lavishly funded, the school managed to remain open through donations of money and supplies. In 1959, the Cannon Street Hospital and Training School for Nurses closed its doors.
"C" is for Cannon Street Hospital
