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PARK AND C EM ETERY. 
TWO HISTORIC CEMETERIES OF PHILADELPHIA 
There are 365 cemeteries located in 
Philadelphia and adjacent territory 
according to an undertaker’s local 
guide book, but probably less than 
twelve accommodate the greater num- 
ber of the interments. 
Philadelphia contains a number of 
notable “cities of the dead,” to which 
visitors are attracted either for the 
beauty of their situations, adornments 
and monumental works, or for their 
historical associations. Many of the 
Friends’ burying-grounds are highly 
interesting to those acquainted with 
local families and history; and the 
suburban churches often stand in the 
midst of beautiful little graveyards 
where the ashes of the founders of 
the city and the commonwealth have 
long reposed. The oldest cemetery of 
the city, however, answ^erin.g to 
Greenwood in its relation to New 
York, is Laurel Hill. This great and 
highly ornamented burying-ground 
covers tne high eastern bank of the 
Schuylkill, between the East ( Fair- 
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mount) Park and Wissahickon Park. 
Laurel Hill was founded in 1835, and 
therefore is, next to Mount Auburn, 
near Boston, the oldest suburban 
cemetery in the country. It now con- 
tains about one hundred acres, all of 
which has been laid out with skill, and 
beautified by the managers apd lot 
owners. 
The cemetery is divided into three 
parts — north, south and central. North 
Laurel Hill is the original part, and 
took its name from the fact that it 
was previously “The Laurels,” the 
homestead of the Sis family. South 
Laurel Hill was “Harleigh,” the coun- 
try seat of the Rawle family; while 
George Pepper formerly occupied 
Central Laurel Hill as an estate 
named “Fairy Hill.” The south en- 
trance is through rather an old-fash- 
ioned but dignified gateway, whose 
massive posts are crowded by sym- 
bolic urns; but the principal entrance 
is that to North Laurel Hill, where 
an archway through a fine temple-like 
structure admits one to the sacred 
grounds. Just within this stately en- 
