Patrick Kelly | This Crematorium was a HOT MESS | Patrick Kelly @PatKellyTeaches | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 53 minutes ago.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania is home to the first public crematorium in the United States. I visited recently and learned about the building’s history.

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Cremation and public health (2015)
jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1525/msem.2015.31.1.88.pdf

Lancaster crematorium registry of historic places
gis.penndot.gov/CRGISAttachments/SiteResource/H000805_01H.pdf

Lancaster Society information
collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/viewer?file=%2fmedia%2flibrary%2fdocs%2fedit_vol89no2pp46_52.pdf#phrase=false

NYT story about first cremation in Lancaster
timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/11/26/109779518.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

Brunetti and Modern Cremation
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00302228211045203?casa_token=M-Po7cK-i94AAAAA%3As6hQKj8grBAWAXOgCW8SQBjuu-6rV3es6lkQ46aPYKki9HN-7_9EHNdieZ3Qv7PFqLdiS30igA&journalCode=omea

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