Dr. John Snow and the Broad Street Pump LbNA #75627
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Add Location| Owner: | Marley's Ghost
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| Plant date: | Jul 10, 2021 |
| Location: | Gillette Castle State Park, East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States |
| City: | East Haddam |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Luv2fish |
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| Last found: | May 26, 2025 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jun 18, 2023 |
Dr. John Snow – The Broad Street Pump Letterbox
CLUES to the John Snow Broad Street Pump letterbox (updated June 2023):
This letterbox has been planted at Gillette Castle State Park in East Haddam, CT.
Find your way to the entrance of the orange trail which is on the park’s main road near the smaller parking lot. Follow the orange trail along the lower path, you’ll see the parking lot below you. You’ll soon see to your left a large stone outcropping with the parking lot still in sight to your right. Continue on the trail, look through the trees on your right, below you just past the parking lot, there is a site with a water pump that is like the type used on Broad Street, there is also a picnic table nearby. (This pump may be covered in winter.) Stop here. The letterbox is hidden behind a large tree in line with the pump on the left side of the orange trail.
The orange trail is a nice, easy loop trail that is less than a mile in length. There are many other good trails in the park and other letterboxes nearby.
For directions, trail map and more information about the park follow the links:
Gillette Castle State Park (ct.gov)
GilletteCastle_New_printer-friendly.pdf (ct.gov)
About Dr. Snow and the pump:
In 1854 Dr. John Snow was practicing medicine in London when an outbreak of cholera broke out in the SoHo neighborhood around Broad Street. John Snow tried to save his patients from the disease, and he also tried to determine what caused it. He plotted the cases of the disease on a map of the Broad Street neighborhood and interviewed the people in the area; he analyzed the information and determined that the water from the Broad Street pump was most likely the source of the illness. This detective work and analysis was new to medicine and is basic to epidemiology. He worked to get the city leaders to remove the handle from the Broad Street pump so that the people would not be able to drink the contaminated water. His contribution to the development of the science of epidemiology is remembered in a memorial near the site of the original Broad Street pump in London. The memorial is a pump with a plaque and there is also a pub nearby called the John Snow Pub.
If you’re interested in more info here is a link for a youtube video: https://youtu.be/TLpzHHbFrHY
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is a good book about the 1854 chlolera outbreak and the work of Dr. Snow and others at the time.
And there is an episode of the PBS series Victoria that includes John Snow. He was well known for his contribution to anesthesiology and was chosen to anesthetize Queen Victoria for childbirth.
Hike length: 1 mile
CLUES to the John Snow Broad Street Pump letterbox (updated June 2023):
This letterbox has been planted at Gillette Castle State Park in East Haddam, CT.
Find your way to the entrance of the orange trail which is on the park’s main road near the smaller parking lot. Follow the orange trail along the lower path, you’ll see the parking lot below you. You’ll soon see to your left a large stone outcropping with the parking lot still in sight to your right. Continue on the trail, look through the trees on your right, below you just past the parking lot, there is a site with a water pump that is like the type used on Broad Street, there is also a picnic table nearby. (This pump may be covered in winter.) Stop here. The letterbox is hidden behind a large tree in line with the pump on the left side of the orange trail.
The orange trail is a nice, easy loop trail that is less than a mile in length. There are many other good trails in the park and other letterboxes nearby.
For directions, trail map and more information about the park follow the links:
Gillette Castle State Park (ct.gov)
GilletteCastle_New_printer-friendly.pdf (ct.gov)
About Dr. Snow and the pump:
In 1854 Dr. John Snow was practicing medicine in London when an outbreak of cholera broke out in the SoHo neighborhood around Broad Street. John Snow tried to save his patients from the disease, and he also tried to determine what caused it. He plotted the cases of the disease on a map of the Broad Street neighborhood and interviewed the people in the area; he analyzed the information and determined that the water from the Broad Street pump was most likely the source of the illness. This detective work and analysis was new to medicine and is basic to epidemiology. He worked to get the city leaders to remove the handle from the Broad Street pump so that the people would not be able to drink the contaminated water. His contribution to the development of the science of epidemiology is remembered in a memorial near the site of the original Broad Street pump in London. The memorial is a pump with a plaque and there is also a pub nearby called the John Snow Pub.
If you’re interested in more info here is a link for a youtube video: https://youtu.be/TLpzHHbFrHY
The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson is a good book about the 1854 chlolera outbreak and the work of Dr. Snow and others at the time.
And there is an episode of the PBS series Victoria that includes John Snow. He was well known for his contribution to anesthesiology and was chosen to anesthetize Queen Victoria for childbirth.
Hike length: 1 mile