Artist Charles Peck says he spent about a month researching the historic background on the six mural panels. The first panel shows three Calusa Indian medicine men and priests trying to heal a sick woman.  Archaeologists and university officials supplied information to make the mural as authentic as possible.  The second panel depicts conquistadors and a combat surgeon taking care of some of their soldiers.  Combat medicine often involved blood-letting and amputation.

Panel number three was based on a 1882-83 malaria epidemic.  Dr. J. F. Cronin was the first quarantine inspector in Charlotte Harbor and is shown giving a shot.  The scene is inside a quarantine station on the bay side of Boca Grande.  The station was moved to the Gulf side when they found it was mosquitoes that carried the disease and the bay side was infested with mosquitoes.  Panel four shows the new quarantine station as it looked in 1904 on the island's Gulf side and the schooner Proctor used at first as a temporary quarantine station.

The fifth mural shows Dr. David N. McQueen one of the first modern doctors to settle in our county near the turn of the century.  Also shown in the buckboard is Nathaniel "Little Doc" McQueen being pulled by "Jim" the horse. 

McQueen's daughter, Lucille Bloomquist and Nathaniel's son Robert "Bucky" McQueen attended the March 1998 dedication ceremony. 

Panel six is a painting of the first hospital built in Charlotte County in 1947.  The facility had a dozen beds.  Also shown are three scenes of early x-ray, operating table and a patient’s bed.

Dedicated March 1998