Allegheny Cemetery
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Allegheny Cemetery is one of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's largest, oldest, and most picturesque burial grounds.
It is a nonsectarian, wooded hillside park located at 4734 Butler Street in the Lawrenceville neighborhood and bounded by Bloomfield, Garfield, and Stanton Heights. It is sited on the north-facing slope of hills above the Allegheny River.
Opened in 1845, the Allegheny Cemetery is the sixth oldest rural cemetery in America and has expanded over the years to now encompass 300 acres (1.2 km²).
Its design echoes the landscaped garden style of the Mount Auburn Cemetery near Boston, Massachusetts, considered one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the United States.
Allegheny Cemetery memorializes more than 100,000. Some of the oldest graves are of soldiers who fought in the French and Indian War, which were moved here from their original burial site at Pittsburgh's Trinity Cathedral downtown. Many notables from the city of Pittsburgh are buried here as well.
Notable internments
- John Baptist Ford (1811–1903), industrialist, founder of PPG Industries and Ford City, Pennsylvania
- Walter Forward
- Stephen Foster (1826–1864), songwriter
- Josh Gibson (1911–1947), baseball great of the Negro Leagues
- Gus Greenlee
- General Alexander Hays
- Thomas Mellon
- General James S. Negley
- Henry Kirke Porter
- Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1879–1912), aviation pioneer
- Lillian Russell (1861–1922), singer, actress
- Stanley Turrentine
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