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This cemetery served the nearby Berks County Almshouse, which housed the county's indigent, elderly, sickly and insane from 1826 to 1951. The dead were buried in unmarked graves. When the site of the former almshouse was razed for redevelopment in 1957, workers accidentally dug up some human remains before they stopped. All that is left visible today from the cemetery is a tranquil field and the entrance gate, marked "POTTER'S FIELD."