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Saint Vincent Basilica Parish was formed on April 16, 1790 when Father Theodore Brouwers, O.F.M. purchased the 300 acres of land, in Unity Township, called "Sportsman's Hall Tract" and thus founded Sportsman's Hall Parish. The parish was later placed under the patronage of Saint Vincent de Paul and so was called Saint Vincent Parish. With the formation of the parish came, obviously, a need for a cemetery; thus, Saint Vincent Cemetery dates to those early days when Saint Vincent was the first Catholic parish in Pennsylvania west of the Allegheny Mountains.
NOTE: The cemetery is located within the Saint Vincent College Complex. It can be accessed from Saint Vincent Cemetery Road and from an access road at the end of the parking lot behind the dorms, off of Monastery Road.