This timeline collection documents the first babies born at Blount Memorial Hospital since the facility first opened in the summer of 1947. Here’s a look at The Daily Times archives for the hospital’s first arrivals over the years.
NOTES: Stories are listed chronologically by their publication date in The Daily Times. Prior to 1992, The Daily Times went to press in the early afternoon as a p.m. publication and some Baby New Years arrived early enough to make that first edition. The Daily Times has at various times had a Sunday edition, in some years the first edition of the new year waited until the first Monday…