Odd Fellows Cemetery (Philadelphia)

Odd Fellows Cemetery was a historic cemetery at 24th and Diamond Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, established in 1849.[1] The gatehouse was designed by architect Stephen Decatur Button.

It included the grave of author George Lippard.[1]

The cemetery property was acquired by the Philadelphia Housing Authority in 1950 for construction of a housing project. The bodies that had been interred there were relocated to two other cemeteries owned by the Odd Fellows: Mount Peace Cemetery and Lawnview Cemetery.[1] The Lippard grave was moved to Lawnview Cemetery in Rockledge, Pennsylvania in 1951.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Thomas H. Keels (2003), Philadelphia graveyards and cemeteries, Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 073851229X, ISBN 9780738512297. Pages 120-121.
  2. ^ Ehrlich, Eugene and Gorton Carruth. The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982: 205. ISBN 0195031865