AFRICAN-AMERICAN PHYSICIANS

Site of office building which housed prominent African-American physicians and pharmacy. Among the doctors who practiced here between 1909 and 1930 were Obed Cooley; Nathaniel J. Ridley; J.C. Coleman; John Hunter, first African-American surgeon at St. Joseph's Hospital; and Joseph Lame, who later founded a medical clinic in Louisville. Presented by Professor Doris Wilkinson, Historical Sociologist at University of Ky. Photograph courtesy of Mr. Paul Newton. Return to Fayette County marker listing Copyright 1998 Grover & Jayne Hibberd