Eden Cemetery
Eden Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery located in Collingdale, Pennsylvania. It was established June 20, 1902, and is the oldest existing black owned cemetery in the United States.Photo: Lblanchard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Collingdale, Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Historic Eden Cemetery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Darby Free Library and Clifton–Aldan station.
Darby Free Library
Library
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
Darby Free Library is a public library at 1001 Main Street in Darby Borough, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Founded as the Darby Library Company in 1743 – just 12 years after Benjamin Franklin organized the Library Company of Philadelphia – it remains one of the oldest libraries in the United States. Darby Free Library is situated 3,600 feet east of Eden Cemetery.
Clifton–Aldan station
Railway station
Photo: Spmarshall42, CC BY 3.0.
Clifton–Aldan station is a SEPTA station in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania. It serves the Media/Wawa Line and is nearby the Clifton–Aldan station of the D. Clifton–Aldan station is situated 1 mile northwest of Eden Cemetery.
Darby Meeting
Church
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
The Darby Meeting or Darby Friends Meeting House is located in Darby, Pennsylvania. The first recorded minutes of the meeting are dated July 2, 1684, not long after William Penn landed in nearby Chester to establish the colony of Pennsylvania. Darby Meeting is situated 3,700 feet east of Eden Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Upper Darby and Aldan.
Upper Darby
Photo: Mtruch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Upper Darby Township, often shortened to Upper Darby, is a home rule township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the township had a total population of 85,681, making it the state's sixth-most populated municipality after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Reading, and Erie.
Aldan
Village
Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
Aldan is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,244 at the 2020 census.
Darby
Town
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Darby is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, Darby had a population of 10,715. The borough is located along Darby Creek 5 miles southwest of Center City Philadelphia.
Eden Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Delaware County, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.91952° or 39° 55′ 10″ northLongitude
-75.276° or 75° 16′ 34″ westElevation
62 feet (19 metres)Open location code
87F6WP9F+RHOpenStreetMap ID
way 251109810OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q5336824
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From German to Vietnamese—“Eden Cemetery” goes by many names.
- German: “Eden Cemetery”
- Hausa: “Kabari na Eden (Collingdale, Pennsylvania)”
- Hausa: “Kabari na Eden”
- Italian: “Cimitero di Eden”
- Swedish: “Eden Cemetery”
- Vietnamese: “Nghĩa trang Eden”
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Highlights include Collingdale Park and Mount Zion Cemetery.
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