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Philadelphia's Mount Moriah Cemetery : the ruin and rebirth of the city's largest cemetery / Jennifer J. O'Donnell.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection GT3210.P4 O466 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Donnell, Jennifer J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mount Moriah Cemetery (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Cemeteries--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Cemeteries.
- Physical Description:
- 95 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : America Through Time, an imprint of Sutton Publisjing Inc., 2026.
- Summary:
- What happens when a cemetery is abandoned? This is the question many Philadelphians asked when Mount Moriah Cemetery went out of business after 156 years of burying the city's citizens. One day in April 2011, the cemetery laid someone to rest; the next day, the gates were locked up for good.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gemmill fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 1634995848
- 9781634995849
- OCLC:
- 1531448603
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