Charity Hospital 1867

ID: 4828 ~ Source: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ~ Creator: Theodore Lilienthal ~ Date: 1867

This file appears in: Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2: Excavations from 1980s

Built in 1832, the fifth site of Charity Hospital was situated between Girod, Gravier, St. Mary and Common streets.

This file appears in: Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2: Excavations from 1980s

Charity Hospital Cemetery No. 2: Excavations from 1980s

By Ethan Ranck, D. Ryan Gray (editor) & Charlotte Willcox (editor)

The Charity Hospital’s Cemetery No 2. * was used actively between the 1850s and the 1920s to bury the poor and those who succumbed to illness and disease at the hospital. Included in these burials were enslaved people, immigrants, victims of a…