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From: "Pauline Salmon" <>
Subject: [NY IRISH] Quarantine
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 22:10:32 -0700

Hi:

Looking for your almshouse/quarantine on Long Island with no luck. The following came from a NYPL web page

View of the Quarantine Grounds and Buildings, Staten Island, May, 1858
George Hayward (American, b. England, about 1800; active 1834-72)
Lithograph, from D. T. Valentine's Manuals of the Corporation of the City of New York, 1859
Emmet Collection

In 1799, against local protest, the State of New York moved the quarantine station for passengers and seamen with contagious diseases from Governors Island to the northeastern shore of Staten Island. When the station was to be expanded in 1857 and 1858, and again local objections were ignored, Staten Islanders burned the entire facility to the ground.

Staten Island also accommodated a number of less controversial institutions: Sailors' Snug Harbor and Seamen's Retreat, Mariners' Family Home, and the Society for Seamen's Children.

I do know that there were alms houses and residence for many poor people in Yaphank in the 1800's. There is a book about it in a Long Island Library. It was very large. It was a model for other places, so probably not what you are looking for.

Sorry I can not recall the name.

Pauline Salmon San Diego

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