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From: "George F. Nagle" <>
Subject: RE: [PADAUPHI] ALMSHOUSE
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 13:16:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: <000901c427be$388f4740$fb0eaa44@pittpa.adelphia.net>


The Dauphin County Almshouse is in pretty much the same location now as when
it was established in the middle of the 1800's: at 28th and Paxton Streets.
Now it is called Dauphin Manor, but it has been called the county poorhouse,
county asylum and county almshouse in the past. Most of what we now call
28th Street was named "Poorhouse Road" in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

On the 1875 Swatara Township, Dauphin County map at Bob Maley's
website,(http://maley.net/atlas/) you can see the almshouse, identified as
"County Asylum" by following Paxton Street (not identified, but the road
that leaves the city from the "G" in "Harrisburg") from the city limits due
east.

County coroner Graham Hetrick recently successfully saved most of the
almshouse cemetery from being lost to construction. It is now marked.

Records of the county almshouse are at the state archives in Harrisburg,
some on microfilm. Check their holdings here:
http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/ys/r47ys3.htm (scroll down almost to
the bottom)

George F. Nagle
Editor, Afrolumens Project
http://www.afrolumens.org/


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susquehanna twp. !!! Bill
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> Can anyone tell me the location of the almshouse in Dauphin Co. in 1905 ?
Thanks Joanne
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