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Tag Archives: Byberry Mental Hospital

Byberry Insane Asylum – A House of Horrors in 1940’s Philadelphia

For nearly 200 years, Northeastern Philadelphia had treated its surrounding mentally ill citizens “to keep them off the streets” because they caused “terror among their neighbors.”

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