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Dr. Lorenzo L. Stephens

Prominent Monroe Doctor, who built Monroe's first private hospital.
Dr. Lorenzo L. Stephens built Monroe's first private hospital in 1903 and offered men working in the mills, mines, logging camps and on the railroad an innovative health plan: the services of his hospital for $1 a month. The building still stands on the on the southeast corner of Main and Blakely Streets. See Nellie Robertson's Monroe History Books for more information.

--Monroe Historical Society photo #1112