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Cemeteries in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (3 P) P. Cemeteries in Philadelphia (1 C, 25 P) Cemeteries in Pittsburgh (7 P) This page was last edited on 3 February 2025 ...
This list of cemeteries in Pennsylvania includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Many post cemeteries have been given national cemetery status as late as 2020, which is considerably later than the original cemetery. For example, Vancouver Barracks post cemetery was established in 1849 and became a national cemetery in 2020—one of 11 cemeteries transferred from the Army to NCA in 2019–2020 per Exec. Order No. 13781, 2017 ...
Category: Cemeteries in Pennsylvania by city. 1 language. ... Cemeteries in Pittsburgh (7 P) This page was last edited on 25 January 2023, at 00:48 (UTC). ...
Cemeteries in Pennsylvania by city (3 C) ... Pages in category "Cemeteries in Pennsylvania" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
Mount Peace Cemetery is a cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is owned and operated by the Odd Fellows organization. It was established in 1865 and is located at 3111 West Lehigh Avenue, near the Laurel Hill Cemetery. [1] The cemetery property was originally part of the colonial estate of Robert Ralston and
Lebanon Cemetery was condemned in 1899 and the bodies were relocated to Eden Cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania. By 1889, the cemetery was overcrowded and in disrepair. Expansion of the city began to erode the size of the cemetery. By 1900, Lebanon Cemetery had shrunk from the original 11 acres down to 6 with over 17,000 corpses. [13]
The cemetery initially consisted of nine leased lots in seven privately owned cemeteries. [3] In 1881, Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs recommended the consolidation of all veteran interments in Philadelphia into one cemetery. [4] The U.S. Federal Government purchased 13.32 acres (5.39 ha) from Henry J. and Susan B. Freeman in 1885. [2]