Lazaretto Marks The End Of Quarantine Season

Saturday October 8 and Sunday October 9 from 10:00 AM until dusk

The Lazaretto is located behind the Tinicum Township Fire Station, 99 Wanamaker Avenue, Essington, PA

Join us at the oldest surviving quarantine station in the Western Hemisphere as we celebrate another season free of yellow fever, cholera, typhus, and smallpox. From on both, there will be tours, historical exhibits, living history reenactors, refreshments, and (we hope) sunny riverfront vistas.

SATURDAY

All day: The Aero Club of Philadelphia and the Tinicum Twp. Historical Society.
Noon-1:30 p.m.: Fire Fighter’s Parade
2:00-3:00 p.m.: Sherri Groff, Paranormal Investigations
2:00-4:00 p.m.: Professor Larry Tise of East Carolina University, an authority both on Philadelphia's history and the early history of aviation, will join tours of the site and talk about the Lazaretto's second incarnation as one of the first seaplane bases in North America and a military and civilian flight school.
72:00-8:00 p.m.: Dr. Joe Edgette, Fact vs. Folklore
8:15 p.m. Haunted Candlelight Walk, followed by a showing of the silent movie, Nosferatu.

SUNDAY

Children’s Pumpkin Drawing Contest

noon-1:00 p.m.: Sherri Groff, Paranormal Investigations
1:30-2:30 p.m.: Historian David Barnes will give a presentation and slide show about the history of the Lazaretto, and how quarantine worked in the nineteenth century.
3:00-4:00 p.m. Quarantine Flag Lowering Ceremony. Reenactment of the annual ceremonial lowering of the yellow quarantine flag, marking the official end of quarantine season

For directions, visit lazaretto.org --> "Where Is It?" SEPTA directions will be posted soon; getting there by public transit is not necessarily easy, but it is possible. (I've done the Regional Rail + bike trip several times.) Please let me know if you might be able to carpool or offer a ride to a car-free person in your vicinity.