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Philadelphia Lazaretto in Essington, Pennsylvania, November 2009. The first quarantine station in Philadelphia was erected in 1743 just southwest of where the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers meet on present-day Penrose Ferry Road. A building was erected for use by sick people arriving at the port of Philadelphia and was known as the Pest House ...
In the United States, the Philadelphia Lazaretto was built in 1799 as a response to the 1793 yellow fever outbreak. [10] The Columbia River Quarantine Station located across the river from Astoria, Oregon, also has a remaining example of a government built lazaretto constructed in 1912 by the US Marine Hospital Service. The lazaretto building ...
Lazaretto in 1936. The Philadelphia Lazaretto was the first quarantine hospital in the United States, built in 1799, in Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.The site was originally inhabited by the Lenni Lenape, and then the first Swedish settlers in America.
Historic American Buildings Survey in Philadelphia (197 P) Pages in category "Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 206 total.
Britain's White Star Line carried many immigrants to Philadelphia. The Washington Avenue Immigration Station was an immigrant processing facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States located at the end of Washington Avenue at Pier 53 on the Delaware River, south of modern-day Penn's Landing waterfront district. The building opened in ...
The township contained no other settlements of any size except Maylandville. It was traversed principally by the Darby Road and the road to Lazaretto. Its greatest length, 5 miles (8.0 km); greatest breadth, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4.0 km); area, 6,800 acres (28 km 2). This was the oldest settled portion of the county of Philadelphia.
Patrick Lyon (c. 1769, Edinburgh, Scotland – April 15, 1829, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Scottish-born American blacksmith, mechanic and inventor. After being falsely accused and imprisoned for a 1798 bank robbery, he became a working class hero. [ 1 ]
Location of Delaware County in Pennsylvania. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.