Greenwood Cemetery
Greenwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was established in 1869, is 43 acres in size and contains approximately 20,000 graves.Photo: BillFlis, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Friends Hospital and Philadelphia Charter School for Arts and Sciences.
Friends Hospital
Hospital
Friends Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1813 by Quakers as The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason, the institution was later renamed the Frankford Asylum for the Insane. Friends Hospital is situated 2,200 feet northwest of Greenwood Cemetery.
Philadelphia Charter School for Arts and Sciences
School
The Philadelphia Charter School for Arts and Sciences at H.R. Edmunds is a charter school that is located in the Northwood neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Charter School for Arts and Sciences is situated 3,400 feet northeast of Greenwood Cemetery.
Arrott Transit Center
Metro station
Arrott Transit Center is an elevated rapid transit station and bus station serving SEPTA Metro L trains and SEPTA City Bus routes. It is located at the intersection of Frankford Avenue, Oxford Avenue, Arrott Street, Paul Street, and Margaret Street in the Frankford neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Arrott Transit Center is situated 1 mile southeast of Greenwood Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northwood and Frankford.
Northwood
Neighborhood
Northwood, an area of the Frankford section of Philadelphia, is bounded on the north by Roosevelt Boulevard, on the northeast by Cheltenham Avenue, on the west by Oakland Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery, Juniata Park and Frankford Creek, and on the southeast by Frankford Avenue.
Frankford
Neighborhood
Frankford is a neighborhood in the Northeast section of Philadelphia situated about six miles northeast of Center City. Although its borders are vaguely defined, the neighborhood is bounded roughly by the original course of Frankford Creek on the south…
Juniata
Neighborhood
Photo: Curtbookworm90, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Juniata is a working class neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, which is a section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Juniata is located south of the Juniata Golf Club in Tacony Creek Park.
Greenwood Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: historic cemetery in the Frankford section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Category: burial
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.02132° or 40° 1′ 17″ northLongitude
-75.09785° or 75° 5′ 52″ westElevation
79 feet (24 metres)Open location code
87G62WC2+GVOpenStreetMap ID
way 784022731OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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In Other Languages
“Greenwood Cemetery” goes by many names.
- German: “Greenwood Cemetery”
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