Easton Cemetery, Easton, Pennsylvania

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Location: Easton, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States
Surnames/tags: Cemeteries Pennsylvania

From the City of Easton website: Established in 1849, Easton Cemetery is the earliest and best surviving example of a romantic parklike cemetery within the Lehigh Valley metro area. Architecturally noteworthy features include a Gothic Revival Gatehouse and office, stable, cemetery chapel, and a Gothic frame workshop. Today the cemetery gate has been listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

Although Easton Cemetery began in 1849, many earlier burials from other cemeteries within the city of Easton were removed to Easton Cemetery. These Burying Grounds include: the Episcopal Church on Spring Garden Street, First Presbyterian on Spring Garden Street, German Reformed at Sixth and Church Streets, which is now where the Easton Area Public Library is located, the Jewish Cemetery on Washington Street, Methodist Church at Second Street, and St. John's Lutheran at Fourth and Ferry Streets. Of the above cemeteries, a large number of removals were made from the German Reformed, Jewish & St. John's Lutheran cemeteries.