A black and white postcard of the Copper Queen Hospital. Mining operations are visible on the right side of the picture. The postcard is postmarked September 4th, 1907 Don Luis, is addressed to Miss Iva Aldrich-Whitinsville, Massachusetts Box 269 and was sent from Mrs. Sidney Beard-Lowell, Cochise County. Written on the front in ink “Dear friend Ira. This is a hospital we have to pass when we go to the city. Will send you one of the village later. Sidney” Edward Francis Collection.

In 1900, the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company built the first hospital next to the Rucker mine. There was no room for expansion at this location, so the Copper Queen Hospital was moved to Lowell in 1909. Twenty years later the underground mining operations threatened the stability of the hospital, so a new hospital was built near the Copper Queen Dispensary. Over the years the doctors that practiced at the Copper Queen Hospital included: Dr. Frederick A. Sweet – Chief Surgeon, Dr. George A. Bridge, Dr. Robert Ferguson, and Dr. Thomas Watkins was a company doctor from 1908 to 1934. The Copper Queen Dispensary also provided medical care and medicine to miners and their families. It was built on the original site of the Goldwater and Castaneda Store. For this care, miners paid a monthly fee. It was constructed in 1910 and then moved to its current location in 1914 while the old dispensary building was taken over by the Cochise Publishing Company who printed the Bisbee Daily Review.

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