Patient costs were $3.00 a week, physician fees ran $1.75 a week, and medicine costs ran $.70 a week. The hospital was closed in 1865, deemed to costly to operate.
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The basement had the kitchen, laundry room, fruit and vegetable storage room, furnace room, dining room, closets,and a full bath. The main floor had a parlor, bedroom, office, sitting room and a full bath. The third floor originally contained two large wards, the apothecary shop, and two full baths. The structure was all brick with walls two foot thick.
Construction on Galena’s Marine Hospital, authorized by an act of congress, began in 1857 and was completed in 1860. The nation’s Marine Hospital system was created to care for ailing men of the seafaring business. Large rooms, high ceilings, very private. The building is extremely sound structurally with brick ceilings throughout but would need total restoration. Situated high on a hill on 11 mostly wooded acres with river frontage, the 6300 sq.ft property boasts a magnificent detailed heavy cast iron staircase that winds to the belvedere. The three-story interior is lined with brick.įor more information on this property and more lighthouses up for auction, visit GSA Auctions. The foundation is a concrete and cast iron caisson, 40 feet in diameter. The light station was constructed in 1913 and is a cast iron, 45-foot conical red tower with a black lantern, topped with a cornice. It marks one of a series of shoals along the eastern side of the shipping channel between Cross Ledge Light and Brandywine Shoal Light, and is located 55 miles Southwest of Egg Island Point and 18.5 miles Northwest of Cape May, New Jersey. The closest town is Downe Township, New Jersey. Miah Maull Light Station is located offshore in Cumberland County, New Jersey in Delaware Bay.
I think I could get used to waking up with the sea air on my little red lighthouse every morning jumping in a dingy to pick up some breakfast on the mainland.
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