Sep 26, 2021 | Events, General News
East Carolina University’s Mobile Health Screening Van is making a house call to the Country Doctor Museum. The museum will host the van on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 2:30 p.m. until 7 p.m., when health care providers will be on hand to give free health...
Aug 1, 2021 | General News
The museum’s archivist, Layne Carpenter, helped us develop and install a new exhibit at East Carolina University’s Family Medicine Center. The display shares a wealth of information about medical education for the country doctor during the 19th and early 20th...
Aug 1, 2021 | General News
Rebekah Burroughs joined our staff in May 2021 as a docent and collections management assistant. We are so excited to have her on our team! Rebekah interned with the museum in Spring 2021 as a student at East Carolina University. Just as she was joining our team, she...
Aug 1, 2021 | Garden, General News
Our medicinal garden is turning 50 this year and we’re celebrating! The Mercer Reeves Hubbard Medicinal Garden, named after a museum volunteer who helped organize and implement the garden, was created in 1971. The wagon wheel design drawn by famed North Carolina...
Aug 1, 2021 | General News
A display in the museum’s library, next to the gift shop, shares information about two medical legacies in North Carolina. The display features information about Dr. Manassa Thomas Pope, an 1886 graduate of the Leonard School of Medicine at Shaw University, Raleigh....
