Hood Cemetery

Hood Cemetery is a cemetery in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania. Hood Cemetery is situated nearby to the historic house Loudoun Mansion, as well as near the neighborhood Wister.

Type: Cemetery
Description: cemetery in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
Also known as: “Lower Burial Ground” and “Lower Burying Ground”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Loudoun Mansion and Conyngham-Hacker House.

Loudoun Mansion

Historic house

Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.

The Loudoun Mansion is an historic house in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District, it was damaged by fire in 1993 and is not open to the public. Loudoun Mansion is situated 1,200 feet south of Hood Cemetery.

Conyngham-Hacker House

Historic building

Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.

The Conyngham-Hacker House is a historic house in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 2½-story stone house was built in 1755 by William Forbes. Conyngham-Hacker House is situated 1,800 feet northwest of Hood Cemetery.

Grumblethorpe

Museum

Grumblethorpe was the home of the Wister family in the present-day Germantown section of Philadelphia, who lived there for over 160 years. It was built in 1744 as a summer residence, but it became the family's year-round residence in 1793. Grumblethorpe is situated 2,100 feet northwest of Hood Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wister and Nicetown–Tioga.

Wister

Neighborhood

Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.

Wister is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is bounded by Chelten Avenue to the north, Germantown Avenue to the west, Belfield Avenue to the east, and Wister Street to the south.

Nicetown–Tioga

Neighborhood

Photo: CTLiotta, Public domain.

Nicetown–Tioga is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It comprises two smaller, older neighborhoods, Nicetown and Tioga, although the distinction between the two is rarely emphasized today.

Logan

Neighborhood

Logan is a neighborhood in the upper North Philadelphia section of the city of Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The majority of the neighborhood falls within the 19141 zip code, but some of it falls within 19140.

Hood Cemetery

Category: burial
Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.02894° or 40° 1′ 44″ north

Longitude

-75.16199° or 75° 9′ 43″ west

Elevation

213 feet (65 metres)

Open location code

87G62RHQ+H6

OpenStreetMap ID

way 744183072

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

GeoNames ID

5194119

Wikidata ID

Q117538247

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