Emmylou Harris - Sin City

In 1922, the Masonic Hospital rose at Five Points—newly built that same year—quietly becoming part of one of the most intense public health chapters in American history. From 1922 to 1946, it served the city at a time when El Paso wasn’t just growing… it was becoming a national destination for survival. To understand why hospitals like this mattered, you have to remember what tuberculosis did to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. TB spread rapidly, and for most of the 19th cent