Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown
| Grandview Cemetery | |
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.jpg) The Unknown Plot area, containing more than 700 unidentified victims of the 1889 Johnstown Flood | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 1885 |
| Location | 801 Millcreek Road, Johnstown, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates | 40°19′0″N 78°55′35″W / 40.31667°N 78.92639°W |
| Size | 235 acres (95 ha) |
| No. of graves | Over 70,000 |
| Find a Grave | Grandview Cemetery |
Grandview Cemetery is an American cemetery that is located at 801 Millcreek Road in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
History and notable features
[edit]The cemetery association that operates Grandview was founded in 1885 to accommodate Johnstown's rapidly growing population. The first interment was that of Lucretia Hammond of Kernville (now a part of Johnstown), who was buried on April 30, 1887.[1]
The land for the cemetery, west of the city on Yoder Hill, was purchased from the Cambria Iron Company.[1]
During the late 1880s, Millcreek Road, a steep and winding mile-long street, was built to facilitate public access to the cemetery's original entrance, but in 1904, cemetery overseers found it necessary to create a new entrance to the cemetery at Bucknell Avenue.[1]
The cemetery is best known due to the aftermath of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Many of the flood's 2,209 victims are buried here. A section of the cemetery called the "Unknown Plot" contains the bodies of 777 flood victims who could not be identified, and a monument to the flood victims was purchased by the state of Pennsylvania and dedicated on May 31, 1892 before an estimated crowd of 10,000 that included the governor of Pennsylvania.[1]
In January 2024, the total number of interments at Grandview was more than 70,000. The cemetery contains forty-seven burial sections and more than 235 acres (0.95 km2), and is one of the largest in Pennsylvania.[1]
Notable burials
[edit]- Warren Worth Bailey
- Jacob Miller Campbell
- Elmer Cleveland
- Nat Hickey
- John Graham McCrorey
- Daniel Johnson Morrell
- John Murtha
- George W. Reed
- John Marshall Rose
- John Phillips Saylor
- Howard William Stull
- Boyd Wagner
- Anderson Howell Walters
- George M. Wertz
- John Irving Whalley
Notes
[edit]External links
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Media related to Grandview Cemetery (Johnstown, Pennsylvania) at Wikimedia Commons- Grandview Cemetery at Johnstown, Pennsylvania website
- Grandview Cemetery, Johnstown at Find a Grave
