Marcus Hook Quarantine Station Cemetery
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Marcus Hook Quarantine Station Cemetery

Marcus Hook, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA

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  • Get directions West of Blueball Avenue near 2nd Street, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania 19061, United States
    Coordinates: 39.80923, -75.42355
  • This cemetery is marked as being historical or removed.
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Following nearly two decades' efforts to remove the Delaware River Quarantine Station from the Lazaretto in Essington farther downriver, the state purchased 25 acres of land near the Delaware border and built a new quarantine station in 1898. 


Once operational, the quarantine station employed and housed 11 people, including a doctor and several inspectors. They boarded every ship that came from a foreign port, looking for contagious disease and contamination. Inspectors would look for rats, check ship's quarters for stashes of animal and vegetable goods from other countries, confiscating what they found, and examine the crew and passengers.


Sailors were sometimes taken from their ships and quarantined in the pest house if they had lice, for example, or hospitalized and treated on the station's grounds if they were ill. Several people died at the station in the early part of the 20th century and were buried in a small cemetery surrounded by a picket fence near the edge of the property.


The hospital also treated residents of the local community, and some, for example, during the influenza epidemic of 1918, did die here, but were buried elsewhere.


In 1941, the property was acquired from the state by the U.S. Public Health Service, and in the early 1950s, the Sun Oil Company acquired the site to expand its refinery operations.The small cemetery at the old station -- whose interments totaled three sailors, a baby, and a dog -- was removed, and the sailors were reinterred in Section D, Lot 157, Grave 4 of Lawn Croft Cemetery in nearby Linwood in September, 1958.

Following nearly two decades' efforts to remove the Delaware River Quarantine Station from the Lazaretto in Essington farther downriver, the state purchased 25 acres of land near the Delaware border and built a new quarantine station in 1898. 


Once operational, the quarantine station employed and housed 11 people, including a doctor and several inspectors. They boarded every ship that came from a foreign port, looking for contagious disease and contamination. Inspectors would look for rats, check ship's quarters for stashes of animal and vegetable goods from other countries, confiscating what they found, and examine the crew and passengers.


Sailors were sometimes taken from their ships and quarantined in the pest house if they had lice, for example, or hospitalized and treated on the station's grounds if they were ill. Several people died at the station in the early part of the 20th century and were buried in a small cemetery surrounded by a picket fence near the edge of the property.


The hospital also treated residents of the local community, and some, for example, during the influenza epidemic of 1918, did die here, but were buried elsewhere.


In 1941, the property was acquired from the state by the U.S. Public Health Service, and in the early 1950s, the Sun Oil Company acquired the site to expand its refinery operations.The small cemetery at the old station -- whose interments totaled three sailors, a baby, and a dog -- was removed, and the sailors were reinterred in Section D, Lot 157, Grave 4 of Lawn Croft Cemetery in nearby Linwood in September, 1958.

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  • Added: 20 Jul 2023
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