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A hospital sits abandoned on the banks of the Delaware River near Philadelphia that once sheltered sick immigrants arriving by ship to America.
The Federal style building is called the Lazaretto and is the oldest surviving quarantine station and hospital in the Western Hemisphere in what is now Tinicum Township in Delaware County, Pa. When it was a quarantine station, the Lazaretto physician, staff nurses and others cared for passengers and crew suffering with contagious diseases.
To learn more about the Lazaretto, click here.
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