East Harrisburg Cemetery
East Harrisburg Cemetery is an historic cemetery located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The older, eastern section of the cemetery is located within the borough of Penbrook; the western section is located in Susquehanna Township.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Civil War Museum and Reservoir Park.
National Civil War Museum
Museum
The National Civil War Museum, located at One Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a private 501c nonprofit promoting the preservation of material culture and sources of information that are directly relevant to the American Civil… National Civil War Museum is situated 3,200 feet south of East Harrisburg Cemetery.
Reservoir Park
Park
Reservoir Park is the oldest and largest municipal public park in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and occupies approximately 85 acres in the Allison Hill neighborhood of the city.
Harrisburg State Hospital
Government office
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
Harrisburg State Hospital, formerly known from 1851 to 1937 as Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was Pennsylvania's first public facility to house the mentally ill and disabled. Harrisburg State Hospital is situated 1¼ miles west of East Harrisburg Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Edgemont and Penbrook.
Edgemont
Hamlet
Edgemont is an unincorporated community in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States and is part of the Harrisburg-Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area, bordering the state capital of Harrisburg to the northeast, and the nearby census-designated place of Progress.
Penbrook
Suburb
Penbrook is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, founded in 1861 and incorporated July 10, 1894. Penbrook was once named East Harrisburg and still maintains a Harrisburg postal ZIP code.
Progress
Town
Progress is an unincorporated community and census-designated place mainly in Susquehanna Township but also in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
East Harrisburg Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Category: burial
- Location: Borough of Penbrook, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.28082° or 40° 16′ 51″ northLongitude
-76.85431° or 76° 51′ 16″ westElevation
502 feet (153 metres)Open location code
87G574JW+87OpenStreetMap ID
way 14858005OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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