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Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in York County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on August 19, 1749 and named either after the Duke of York, an early patron of the Penn family, or for the city and county of York in England. Based on the Articles of Confederation having been adopted in York by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 177...
Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major garden or rural cemetery in the United States. In 1998, it was designated a National Historic Landmark; few cemeteries have received this distinction.[4]Located in Philadelphia's East Falls section, the 74-acre (300,000 m2) cemetery overlooks the Schuylkill River. Laurel Hill contains more than...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on September 10, 1784. It is believed to have been named either for Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, or for the Welsh county of Montgomeryshire (which was named after one of Willia...
This project is to track those who are or were a part of making Middletown what it is today. Middletown is the oldest town in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, having been founded in 1755. It is bordered on one side by the Susquehanna River and the Swatara Creek on the other. It has a very rich history, including canals, railroads, and ex-military base, Fort Meade, which was used during the Civil W...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on March 12, 1800, from part of Allegheny County and named for Colonel William Crawford. Adjacent Counties Erie County Warren County Venango County Mercer County Trumbull County, Ohio Ashtabula County, Ohio
Wikipedia Widener University was founded in 1821 as the Bullock School for Boys preparatory school in Wilmington, Delaware, by John Bullock. Bullock operated the school until 1846 when it was sold to Samuel Alsop and renamed the Alsop School for Boys . In 1853, the school was sold to Theodore Hyatt and renamed the Hyatt's Select School for Boys , and again in 1859 to the Delaware Military Acade...
Wikipedia =Indiantown Gap National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in East Hanover Township, in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
Wikipedia =The National Cemetery of the Alleghenies covers 292 acres in Cecil Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania approximately 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was founded on February 26, 1773 and was the first county in the colony of Pennsylvania whose entire territorial boundary was located west of the Allegheny Mountains. It is named after Westmorland, an historic county of England. For a complete list of Boroughs, Towns...
Flicksville Cemetery is located off of Lower South Main Street in Flicksville, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and is accessed by using the driveway for the Flicksville United Church of Christ. The church and parking lot are directly below the small cemetery, the oldest section of the cemetery is on the hilly land, directly above the church and the newer sections above the parking lot and to ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The lands of the future Centre County were first recorded by James Potter in 1764. Potter, having reached the top of Nittany Mountain, and "....seeing the prairies and noble forest beneath him, cried out to his attendant, 'By heavens, Thompson, I have discovered an empire!'" After the Am...
Wikipedia The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918. Founded in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Pratt under authority of the US federal government, Carlisle was the first federally funded off-reservation Indian boarding school. It ...
This project is for those buried in St. Paul's UCC Cemetery, Trexlertown, Pennsylvania. The cemetery is also known as Trexlertown Church Cemetery . Notable Burials Fred Benjamin Gernerd (1879-1948) - US Congress Links Find a Grave Official Website
The cemetery is located on 3419 Broadway, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
In 1841 German Protestant citizens of Millerstown and the surrounding areas felt a need to build a Union Church for members of the Reformed and Lutheran faiths. Following a donation of “120 perches of ground” by Solomon Wesco, a proclamation was drafted for a corner stone laying which took place on August 1. On December 11, 1841 Solomon’s Church of the German Lutheran and Reformed Congregations...
Established in 1743 in Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, the original cemetery, surrounded by a stone wall, is known as Long's Cemetery . It was named for Rev A. Johnson Long who was a pastor of the Church. Many of these tombstones in the old cemetery are no longer legible. The new section surrounds the Church on 2 sides. The Tulpehocken Settlement Historical Society published a cemetery...
Located in Tilden Township, St. Michael's Union Church was established in 1766 and housed both Reformed and Lutheran Congregations. The plot fields were revised in 2023 to coordinate with the book by Betty Luann, St. Michael's #1 and #2 which included burials from 1766-1991. The Old Cemetery #1 identifies tombstones by row and tombstone number. It lies across the road from the Church. The New...
This cemetery was established in 1878 and is located on 342 Lobachsville Road, Lobachsville, Pike Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. It's also known as Lobachsville Cemetery . Find a Grave
This project is for those interred in New Jerusalem Union Cemetery, Fleetwood, Berks County, Pennsylvania.The cemetery is also known as New Jerusalem Cemetery and is located on Lyons Road in Rockland Township. Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is Chestnut Hill Church Cemetery located near the village of Limeport and is in Lower Milford Township, part of a rural area in Lehigh County, with a Coopersburg address. Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 101 Harrison Street, Emmaus, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Aulenbach’s Cemetery began as a two acre donated parcel of land near Perkiomen Avenue and the Reading Turnpike Road in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The donation of family land by Charles Aulenbach already contained about thirty graves, mostly of the Aulenbach family, by the time it was incorporated in 1853. One of the original graves contains the remains of Andreas Aulenbach, a veteran ...
Wikipedia Swarthmore College Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of 1,545 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia. Founded in 1864, Swarthmore was one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. The school was organized by a Committee of Quakers f...
Kulpsville Methodist Episcopal Cemetery is located on 1560 Bustard Road, Kulpsville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
This cemetery was established circa 1800 and is located in Mt. Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave Billion Graves