Mount Vernon Cemetery
Mount Vernon Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 3499 West Lehigh Avenue in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1856, is 27 acres in size and contains approximately 33,000 graves.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Peace Cemetery and Church of St. James the Less.
Mount Peace Cemetery
Cemetery
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Mount Peace Cemetery is a cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is owned and operated by the Odd Fellows organization. It was established in 1865 and is located at 3111 West Lehigh Avenue, near the Laurel Hill Cemetery. Mount Peace Cemetery is situated 760 feet northeast of Mount Vernon Cemetery.
Church of St. James the Less
Church
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The Church of St. James the Less is a historic Episcopal church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, that was architecturally influential. As St. Church of St. James the Less is situated 1,700 feet northeast of Mount Vernon Cemetery.
Woodford
Museum
Woodford is a historic mansion at Ford Road and Greenland Drive in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built c. 1756, it is the first of Philadelphia's great colonial Georgian mansion houses to be built, and exemplifies the opulence of such houses. Woodford is situated 2,400 feet south of Mount Vernon Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Allegheny West and Strawberry Mansion.
Allegheny West
Neighborhood
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Allegheny West is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is named after its location in the vicinity of Allegheny Avenue on the western side of Broad Street.
Strawberry Mansion
Neighborhood
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Strawberry Mansion is a neighborhood in the U.S. city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, located east of Fairmount Park in North Philadelphia. The neighborhood is bounded by 33rd Street to the west, 29th Street to the east, Lehigh Avenue to the north, and Oxford Street to the south.
Northwest Philadelphia
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Philadelphia's Northwest district is a huge area north of Lehigh Ave and west of Front St. This isn't the most visited part of town, but nonetheless there are plenty of interesting neighborhoods to explore.
Mount Vernon Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Category: burial
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.99947° or 39° 59′ 58″ northLongitude
-75.18503° or 75° 11′ 6″ westElevation
141 feet (43 metres)Open location code
87F6XRX7+QXOpenStreetMap ID
way 794942244OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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In Other Languages
From Galician to Swedish—“Mount Vernon Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Galician: “cemiterio de Mount Vernon”
- Japanese: “マウント・ヴァーノン墓地”
- Swedish: “Mount Vernon Cemetery”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Vernon Cemetery”. Photo: Dwkaminski, CC BY-SA 4.0.