Founded: 1801
Location: On point opposite Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD

Images

Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland. [Lazaretto in the foreground]. Cator Collection. Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore

Additional Information

• Dates: 1801
  Notes: Lazaretto built on Point opposite Fort McHenry.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 673
• Dates: 1926/10/17
  Notes: Lazaretto Lighthouse taken down several weeks ago. Stood opposite Fort McHenry for 95 years; once a hospital on the site and smallpox patients treated there. New lighthouse structure just completed.
  See: Sun (Baltimore) October 17, 1926
• Dates: n. d.
  Notes: See:  William Travis Howard, Public Health Administration and the Natural History of Disease in Baltimore, Maryland, 1797-1920, p. 92 for additional information about the Lazaretto.

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