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//Our class field trip to [|Colonial Plantation] will give the students a glimpse into the rural life during the 1700's, which is background information for the study of// Fever 1793 //by Laurie Halse Anderson, and the study of the Constitution.//

=First, you will use this link and follow directions on this Google Document.=

=1. [|Coffeehouse in Colonial Philadelphia]= = = =2. Then, you will use this link to help you sketch Colonial coffeepots: [|Colonial Coffeehouses]=

=3. Next, you will get a piece of white drawing paper and sketch and color, with detail, one of the items used in the coffeehouse. Label the drawing with your name and write a caption for the drawing. Back with black matting.= =You may sketch two items if time allows.=

[|Medline Plus - Yellow Fever]

[|Center for Disease Control - Yellow Fever]
[|Facts about Yellow Fever]

[|New Yellow Fever Link - World Health Organization]

[|Web Quest and Other Good Stuff]

[|Yellow Fever Epidemic]

[|The Great Fever]

[|African-Americans Contributions to the Yellow Fever Epidemic]

[|More about Yellow Fever]

[|Image of Dr. Benjamin Rush]



[|Interactive Map of Philadelphia]

[|History of Philadelphia]



[|An American Plague]

[|Yellow Fever in Mississippi Valley in 1898]

Internet sites to research the disease, yellow fever: [|Center for Disease Control]

[|World Health Organization]

[|Med- Scape- Picture of Yellow Fever Included at the end.]

[|Yellow Fever Online]

[|National Library of Medicine]

[|National Travel and Health Network and Center]

Stephen Girard and Yellow Fever
Yellow Fever came to the city, likely by way of refugees who had fled a rebellion in St-Domingue and found refuge in America. With a touch of irony, Stephen Girard afforded financial assistance to some of those refugees who likely carried the disease to America. Girard was to emerge as a hero in the dissolution of the disease. Before the hideous malady had run its course, five thousand Philadelphians would die. Citizens by the thousands fled the city, including the most prominent of them, President George Washington. But Girard, who could have taken refuge at any safe haven of his choosing, remained to care for the sick and the dying. He further supervised the work of other volunteers in transforming Bush Hill, a mansion just outside the city limits, into a hospital. There the grisly job of removing the dead coincided with improving the lot of the living. It was undertaken with Girard doing many of the menial tasks associated with those chores. Through his tireless efforts, those stricken with the disease, in the care of Girard and the staff at Bush Hill, gained a fair chance of survival. Those who perished were given proper burial. In late October of the year, with the onset of cold weather, the hideous disease and the death toll associated with it began to wane. Girard was recognized as a hero, and was publicly acclaimed as such in a meeting held in City Hall. Girard's prominence as a successful merchant was already widely acknowledged in business circles. Not until his display of courage in combating the frightening Yellow Fever epidemic did he gain public acclaim. He remained ever reticent about his status as a hero, however.

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Stephen Girard Word Document:

=Can you save the people of Philadelphia?= [|After Reading the Book Project]