Odd Fellows Cemetery (Philadelphia)

Odd Fellows Cemetery was a cemetery at 24th and Diamond Streets in Philadelphia, established in 1849 and demolished in the 1950s.[1]

Odd Fellows Cemetery
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Odd Fellows Cemetery (Philadelphia) (the United States)
Details
Established1849
Location
24th and Diamond Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
CountryUnited States
Coordinates39.9867°N 75.1727°W / 39.9867; -75.1727
Typeprivate
Owned byOdd Fellows
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The gatehouse was designed by architect Stephen Decatur Button.

In 1950, the cemetery property was acquired by the Philadelphia Housing Authority for construction of a housing project. The bodies interred there were moved to two other cemeteries owned by the Odd Fellows: Mount Peace Cemetery in Philadelphia and Lawnview Memorial Park in Rockledge, Pennsylvania.[1] However, in 2013, workers unearthed 28 graves and bones that were not moved and remained under the playground of the William Dick school built in 1954[2] along with the housing project.[3]

Notable burials

References

  1. Thomas H. Keels (2003), Philadelphia graveyards and cemeteries, Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1229-X, ISBN 978-0-7385-1229-7. Pages 120-121.
  2. Haas, Kimberly. "Playing on Hallowed Ground: Hidden Cemeteries and the Modern City". www.hiddencityphila.org. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  3. Burdo, Alison. "Forgotten Bodies Unearthed at Local Playground". www.nbcphiladelphia.com. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  4. Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982: 205. ISBN 0-19-503186-5
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