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    The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry was a psychiatric hospital located on either side of Roosevelt Boulevard, US Route 1, in Northeast Philadelphia...
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    Philadelphia County / Montgomery County line on the west. Somerton is adjacent to the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Bustleton, Normandy, and Byberry,...
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    late 19th century, Byberry Hospital was built. The hospital became the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry in 1906. When the hospital finally closed in...
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    2004. The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 17, 2004 Martindale, Joseph C. (1867). A History of the Townships of Byberry and Moreland in Philadelphia, Pa.: From...
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    Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the...
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    James Benjamin Parker (category People from Philadelphia)
    at large" and Parker was therefore admitted to Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry. Parker was only at the hospital for a short time; he died at 2:10...
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  • Within". Lore. Retrieved 13 June 2018. Mahnke, Aaron (20 April 2015). "Dinner at the Afterglow". Lore. Retrieved 13 June 2018. Mahnke, Aaron (4 May 2015)....
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  • workers. From 1966 to 1970, Blain was the superintendent of Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry which had a long history of custodial care. Blain was involved...
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    Graduate Hospital, is a neighborhood that is located in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, bordering Center City Philadelphia. The neighborhood...
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    as Fort Mifflin, Rodin Museum, Academy of Music and the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry. We Are Tiger Dragon People, started in 2008, is a series...
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    moved to the Byberry Mental Hospital, later known as the Philadelphia State Hospital. "Old Blockley" was renamed Philadelphia General Hospital (PGH) in 1919...
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    Color in Byberry Township. This African Burial Ground remains an obscure anomaly, largely forgotten today although it was placed on the Philadelphia Register...
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    attendant at the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry as part of a Quaker program for the humane treatment of mental patients. At Byberry, she met her...
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  • as four times in a week. Albritton was beaten to death at Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry in 1940. According to the Republican Herald, witnesses...
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    central neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It comprises the area that made up the City of Philadelphia prior to the Act of Consolidation...
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    and his colleagues designed and tested a token economy at Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry that extended earlier work on token economies in psychiatric...
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  • Emigrants, and Byberry Library established 1798 – Bank of the United States opens. 1800 – United States capital relocates from Philadelphia to Washington...
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    Vic Donahey (category People from New Philadelphia, Ohio)
    Association of Ohio. 1958. p. 7 – via Google Books. Byberry Walton Reunion Executive Committee (1989). Byberry Waltons. Vol. II. Decorah, IA: Anundsen Publishing...
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    Association of Ohio. 1958. p. 7 – via Google Books. Byberry Walton Reunion Executive Committee (1989). Byberry Waltons. Vol. II. Decorah, IA: Anundsen Publishing...
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    York City. It was also a part of the Byberry and Bensalem Turnpike between Oakford (Neshaminy Creek) and Philadelphia. From the Lancaster Turnpike, where...
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    Harriet Forten Purvis (category Activists from Philadelphia)
    situation became dangerous in central Philadelphia and the family moved to a farm in rural Byberry, Philadelphia in 1843 or 1844.: 12  They assisted about...
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    Wilmer Worthington (category Republican Party Pennsylvania state senators)
    University of Pennsylvania in 1825. After six months practicing medicine at Byberry, Worthington returned to West Chester and established a successful practice...
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    is intended to be a complete list of the Pennsylvania state historical markers in Philadelphia County, as placed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum...
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    Benjamin Rush (category Burials at Christ Church, Philadelphia)
    the Township of Byberry in Philadelphia County, about 14 miles outside of Philadelphia (the township was incorporated into Philadelphia in 1854). Rush...
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    again. The road turns northeast as it passes near a few businesses at the Byberry Road intersection, where Spur Road serves as a connector road in the...
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    Pennsylvania Route 63 (Moreland Road), County Line Road, Davisville Road, Byberry Road, Fitzwatertown Road, Terwood Road and Blair Mill Road. Commuter rail...
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  • Best Editing at the Director's Chair Film Festival and the Philadelphia State Hospital episode won Best Editing and Best Local Film at the same festival...
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    Street Academy Library Brotherhead's Circulating Library Burd Orphan Asylum Byberry Library C Carpenters' Company Catholic Philopatrian Society Central High...
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    Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) operate almost all of Philadelphia's public transit, including all six trolley, three trackless trolley,...
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    through the local school in Newtown. Later, she attended a school in Byberry, Philadelphia before going to the Sharon Female Seminary in Darby, now Sharon...
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