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Bishop White House



This house is located at 3rd & Walnut, across the street from the Curtis Adjustment Bureau. This has been called "the most haunted house in Independence Park". Rangers report feeling uneasy in the house and avoid entering it alone and at night. Shadowy shapes are reported throughout the house.

Bishop White was chaplain to the Second Constitutional Convention and the U.S. Senate. He was born in Philadelphia, and became very popular due to his charity work and to the ministering of the sick in 1793 during the Yellow Fever epidemic. This epidemic claimed 1 of 5 residents, including the Bishop's neighbor, Dr. Rush. It is believed that he escaped infection because he smoked a great deal and that this repelled the mosquitoes, which are the source of the infection.



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