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Easton Cemetery's parklike cemetery landscape design is based on the picturesque romantic styles of the early and late 19th century. Its landscape is set with thousands of examples of funeral artwork, in a variety of decorative styles, spanning Greco-Roman Revival, Gothic Victorian, and Art Deco. Easton Cemetery is the earliest and best ...
Butler St. Entrance of Allegheny Cemetery Octavius Catto grave at Eden Cemetery. Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh (Lawrenceville neighborhood) Arlington Cemetery (Pennsylvania), Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania; Beechwoods Cemetery, Washington Township, Jefferson County; Bergstrasse Cemetery; Calvary Catholic Cemetery (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh -
Glenwood Memorial Gardens was established in 1923 as New Glenwood Cemetery [1] and the first burials took place in February 1924. [2] The cemetery was built on 51 acres of farm land purchased from Eleanor F. Baker in 1921.
The National Cemetery of the Alleghenies covers 292 acres (118 ha) in Cecil Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania approximately 20 miles (30 km) southwest of Pittsburgh.
In 1973, the Oddfellows Cemetery Company of Philadelphia [11] installed a flag pole in Lawnview Memorial Park with a memorial plaque commemorating veterans buried in Lawnview and other current and defunct Oddfellows cemeteries in the Philadelphia region. In 1979, the chapel was converted to the Odd Fellows Cemetery Company's general offices. [2]
Approximately 28,000 bodies were reinterred to Lawnview Memorial Park with only 300 grave markers included in the move since families members were located. [8] Most of the reinterments were placed in a mass grave. [11] The process of relocating the bodies took four years to accomplish.
Elisha Kent Kane's funeral was the largest in the United States until Abraham Lincoln's [8] Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), physician, polar explorer, lover or husband of spiritualist Margaretta "Maggie" Fox; John K. Kane (1795–1858), U.S. District Judge, Attorney General of Pennsylvania
The Arlington Cemetery now consists of the Mount Vernon Office, Topitzer Funeral Home, Williamsburg Chapel, The Underground Railroad Museum, The Museum of Mourning Art, The Garden Mausoleum, The Monticello Mausoleum, and a greenhouse. [1] In addition, the cemetery itself is divided up into about 18 sections, each individually named. [2]