Blockley

Travel back in time with author Alma Hebel Haglund as she takes us back to seventeenth century England to witness the beginning of what would become the largest general hospital in The New World. Interwoven in the early Pennsylvania history is the story of Blockley, a hospital that began in colonial days as an almshouse to become one of the most outstanding hospitals in the United States for medical and nursing care and research. Take a glimpse of how early settlers and Indians managed their health care and see what it was like have lived three centuries ago. Share in the overwhelming emotions of Pennsylvania's glory as Blockley is born, grows and until it eventually meets its demise in 1977.