Potters Fields in Philadelphia

When the city's Fairmount Section was undergoing renovations, bones were discovered on the block of 800 and N. 20th Street.

Potters Field was once located nearby at N. 19th Street and Fairmount Ave.

The burial ground at the 800 block of N. 20th Street is believed to date back to 1793 when the city experienced a Yellow Fever outbreak and the estate known as Bush Hill served as its hospital located on the same grounds. Later, the hospital would be renamed the City's Hospital for Contagious Diseases until the year 1855.

Potters Fields were located in various parts of the city for the poor, the unknown and the unclaimed.
Several locations once called Potters Fields in Philadelphia are as followed;

• NorthEast opened in 1956
• Luzerene & Whitaker (now a police parking lot)
• Washington Square

And several other locations.

The last Potters Field was the one located in the Far NorthEast.

When the Potters Field was located at Luzerene and Whitaker in 1914, it served as the final resting place for those who died in the 1918 Flu Epidemic and the Great Depression in the 1930's. At this time, it was connected with a City Hospital.

Today, "Potters Field" is not a burial ground, but a room located in the City Morgue where there is 2400 sets of ashes identified but left unclaimed.