Lancaster Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Get directions 205 E Lemon St
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA 17602

Coordinates: 40.04580, -76.30060
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This cemetery was established in 1846 by the First Reformed Church of Lancaster. Originally a ten acre lot was purchased from the Longnecker Estate. Over the years this has been expanded to twenty acres. The cemetery was designed by the Reverend Nathaniel A. Keyes, using a compass and a ruler. Its many older monuments reflect a Victorian sentiment exhibiting symbols such as a role with a broken stem, an open Bible, and allegorical figures representing wisdom and faithfulness.

The first interment occurred in June of 1848. Among the notable individuals interred here are Civil War General John Fulton Reynolds, who died on the first day of the battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, and modern artist Charles Demuth.

Lancaster Cemetery has been designated a local historic landmark by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County.