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    Philadelphia National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established...
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    to the Philadelphia National Cemetery in 1885. The Woodlands estate was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1967. In 2006, the cemetery and other...
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    Mount Moriah Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery that spans the border between Southwest Philadelphia and Yeadon, Pennsylvania. It was established in...
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    The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial...
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    Mount Vernon Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 3499 West Lehigh Avenue in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It...
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    were reinterred to the Philadelphia National Cemetery in 1885. In 1951, the cemetery property was acquired by the Philadelphia Housing Authority for construction...
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    Mikveh Israel Cemetery is the oldest Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, giving evidence of a settled community as early as 1740. A number of...
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    neighborhood of Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major rural cemetery in the United States after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts...
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    his Civil War injuries. He died in Philadelphia, on October 1, 1916. He is buried in Philadelphia National Cemetery. He died less than a month after the...
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  • County Palmer Cemetery, Philadelphia Philadelphia National Cemetery, Philadelphia Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Sunbury Providence Quaker Cemetery and Chapel,...
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    Greenwood (Knights of Pythias) Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was established...
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    Glenwood Memorial Gardens (category Cemeteries in Philadelphia)
    cemetery in Broomall, Pennsylvania. It was originally established in 1849 as a rural cemetery on 20 acres in North Philadelphia as Glenwood Cemetery....
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    nearby Philadelphia National Cemetery became limited, and many interments that would have been made there were made at Beverly instead. Beverly National Cemetery...
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    Gettysburg National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, created for Union casualties from the Battle of Gettysburg...
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  • World War I. Girandy died at age 73 and was buried in Philadelphia National Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Medal of Honor Good Conduct Medal Spanish...
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  • Greenwood Cemetery, Pittsburgh Ivy Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia Lebanon Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monument Cemetery, Philadelphia Mount Moriah...
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    Hill Cemetery in nearby Philadelphia. The cemetery property is an accredited arboretum and has an on-site funeral home and crematorium. The cemetery contains...
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    Haym Salomon (category Businesspeople from Philadelphia)
    The grave site of Haym Salomon is located in the Mikveh Israel Cemetery in Philadelphia. Though it is unmarked, there are two plaque memorials. The east...
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    Lafayette Cemetery was a cemetery in the Passyunk Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1828 and originally intended...
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    buried in Christ Church Cemetery in Philadelphia. (The Kensington Burial Grounds in Fishtown, also known as Palmer Cemetery, was founded around 1732...
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    Leverington Cemetery is a historic non-denominational cemetery established in 1745 in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United...
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  • The following cemeteries were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Civil War Era National Cemeteries Multiple Property Submission...
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    graves, including Confederate soldiers, were moved to Philadelphia National Cemetery in Philadelphia in 1892. Henry Graham Ashmead (1838–1920), journalist...
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    United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the cemetery serves veterans in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area and is located less than 3 miles...
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    Salisbury National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Salisbury, in Rowan County, North Carolina. It was established...
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    West Oak Lane, Ogontz, and Germantown. on Olney and Wister. Philadelphia National Cemetery and Ogontz Hall are on the NRHP. Erny Field is a baseball field...
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    Christ Church Burial Ground (category Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia)
    Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia is an important early-American cemetery. It is the final resting place of Benjamin Franklin and his wife, Deborah...
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    Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, and Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. In 1842 the group selected the 100-acre...
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  • National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. As of May 2006, there were 367 Medal of Honor recipients buried in Arlington National...
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  • Lebanon Cemetery was an African-American cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, established in 1849. It was one of only two private African-American...
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