“Evangeline”
The Almshouse of the Society of Friends
On this site in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem, “Evangeline,” Gabriel LaJeunesse and Evangeline Bellefontaine were reunited in the almshouse of the Society of Friends, located here 1729–1841.
Marker is on Walnut Street west of South 3rd Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
