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Location : Essington, Delaware County, USA
Coordinate : 39.8620000, -75.2994000
Description : In 1799, the Lazaretto Quarantine Station was established in response to the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793. The complex included a large main building, several outbuildings, and a burial ground. Those buried there included ill passengers and crew of ships arriving at the Port of Philadelphia, including several freed slaves brought over on the U.S.S. Ganges in 1800. By the late-19th century, the burial ground had fallen into disrepair, and most of the graves were unmarked, though one former employee remembered that in addition to sick sailors and passengers, the dead included several ships' officers and a physician... Read More

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    Latitude: 39.8620000
    Longitude: -75.2994000

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