The Round House Museum - Egg Harbor City, NJ - Donated Engraved Bricks and Pavers on Waymarking.com

There are 423 bricks on the right & 491 bricks on the left of this national historic site.

The site is also known as Dr. Smith's Sanitarium Site & more currently, the Round House, home of the Egg Harbor City Historical Society. Across the street, on bridge railing, is a neatly designed interpretive display which explains the whole story.

There is also a time capsule, to the left of the front walkway leading to the front door. In the front yard to the right is a pretty fountain presented by George Gerlach to Lincoln Park, whatever that is. The building is very unusual and definitely stands out in this area. In the back of the house is a huge park and playground for children to play.
Today, the house is a museum which collects and preserves items related to the city's German heritage, from records and newspapers, items manufactured here, photographs and genealogy records, etc. Several permanent exhibits on the wine, boat and clothing industries as well as revolving displays of current interest can also be found here.

The historical marker/interpretive display reads as follows:
"Welcome to the site of Dr. Smith's Neutral Water Sanitarium. Before you is the focal point of the sanitarium, the flowing cedar waters in the serpentine creek. The site before and behind you was the destination hundreds of people from the surrounding area of New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore."

If you were to stand at this sign, you would be facing Peace Pilgrim Park which the serpentine creek is now a part of today.

Trying to find out even more information, I cam across a message board. Here is one of the posts:
"Yes, I'm familiar with it. The sanitorium itself is gone (I have an original postcard of it which I can scan). There is one building left from the complex. It's a 16-sided building known as the roundhouse. I forget exactly what its purpose was. It is now the headquarters of the Egg Harbor City Historical Society. The Sanitorium was the main building in a complex that included small canals that people were encouraged to wade through for good health as part of their treatment. The canals are still there near the roundhouse."
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Mailing Address
535 London Ave.
Egg Harbor Cuty, NJ 08215

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535 London Ave
Egg Harbor City, NJ 08215

Phone: 609-965-4677
Email: vf-6_felix@att.net
Web: www.ehchs.org (official site of the historical society)

Museum Hours
Wednesday & Saturday 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm or by Appointment

Admissions
Free

Setting of your bricks:: Museum Name of Display: Round House Museum Supporters Approximate number of bricks in display: 900-925 Name on One Brick: In Memory of Carrie and Tom Hamilton

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