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Sep 18, 2013

One Place: PoorHouse, penitentiary, lunatic asylum, and tuberculosis, smallpox, and isolation hospitals, as well as three cemeteries.


Hudson County's Snake Hill

The complex included an almshouse, penitentiary, lunatic asylum,  tuberculosis, smallpox, and isolation hospitals, as well as three burial grounds.


1820 Poor House
1862 Snake Hill Complex begins
1962 closed
2003 The largest disinterment in U.S. history. 
4,569 bodies transferred. 
About 5,000 may still be buried in the near vicinity. 
(NJ turnpike exit 15X)


Here my page: 
https://sites.google.com/site/jcgeney/home/-hudson-county-snake-hill


Ed