Union Burial Ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Get directions 6th Street, below Washington Avenue (former location)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Coordinates: 39.93424, -75.15366
This cemetery is marked as being historical or removed.
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The Union Burial Ground was located at the NE corner of 6th & Federal Streets in South Philly, was incorporated in 1841 as an "association" cemetery, catered to the poorer residence who as association members could obtain a decent family plot for $10.00. This cemetery was called Sixth Street Union to differentiate it from another Union Burial Ground at 10th & Washington Avenue. In 1970 the cemetery which contained the graves of over 100 Civil War Soldiers and Sailors and their families was neglected and vandalized. That same year the site was sold for use as a supermarket. About 2,000 graves were dug up, the remains boxed and then reburied in Philadelphia Memorial Park in Frazer, Chester County.

Ancestry.com does have the removal cards on line which indicate that some remains were reinterred to Philadelphia Memorial Park and others went to Greenmount Cemetery.