Moyamensing Prison Garden
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Moyamensing Prison Garden

Also known as Philadelphia County Prison Garden

Passyunk Square, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

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  • Get directions 1400 East Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19147, United States
    Coordinates: 39.93199, -75.16164
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Moyamensing Prison, also known as also called the Philadelphia County Prison, was between 1832 and 1836 on the lot that spans 11th Street, Reed Street, and Passyunk Avenue. It had a similar castellated appearance to Eastern State Penitentiary on Fairmount Avenue. A separate "Debtors Apartment" was designed in an Egyptian-Revival style similar to the Temple of Amenhotep III along the Nile River. By the time of its completion in 1836, the law requiring the imprisonment of debtors was repealed. The prison used the new wing as a women's annex.

Prior to the establishment of a separate House of Correction, thousands of women found themselves imprisoned in the County Prison over the course of any given year; in 1862, for example, 5,200 women found themselves committed to the Moyamensing Prison at one time or another.

And that many women came life and death; some women gave birth while incarcerated, and while many of their children lived, some did not. Some of those that died were buried in the prison's garden.

The prison was demolished in 1968, and the site is occupied by a grocery store and parking lot.

Moyamensing Prison, also known as also called the Philadelphia County Prison, was between 1832 and 1836 on the lot that spans 11th Street, Reed Street, and Passyunk Avenue. It had a similar castellated appearance to Eastern State Penitentiary on Fairmount Avenue. A separate "Debtors Apartment" was designed in an Egyptian-Revival style similar to the Temple of Amenhotep III along the Nile River. By the time of its completion in 1836, the law requiring the imprisonment of debtors was repealed. The prison used the new wing as a women's annex.

Prior to the establishment of a separate House of Correction, thousands of women found themselves imprisoned in the County Prison over the course of any given year; in 1862, for example, 5,200 women found themselves committed to the Moyamensing Prison at one time or another.

And that many women came life and death; some women gave birth while incarcerated, and while many of their children lived, some did not. Some of those that died were buried in the prison's garden.

The prison was demolished in 1968, and the site is occupied by a grocery store and parking lot.

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