 Starting with the turn of the twentieth century, the number of hospitals in Spartanburg were beginning to grow.In the late 1910s, at least seven other hospitals served the city.One of those hospitals was Spartanburg Hospital, Inc., which opened in 1907 thanks in part to the efforts of Dr. Hugh Ratchford Black, known as an early pioneer surgeon in the area who also wrote a definitive history of medicine in the Spartanburg region at the time.