Atglen Baptist Cemetery
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Atglen Baptist Cemetery

Also known as Penningtonville Baptist Cemetery

Atglen, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA

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    Atglen, Pennsylvania 19310 United States
    Coordinates: 39.94577, -75.97258
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The original Glen Run Baptist Church was founded in West Fallowfield Township in 1832, when a stone edifice was erected for the convenience of members of the Hephzibah Baptist Church living in the neighborhood along with a small burial ground. In 1857–58, John M. Phillips erected a two-story stone church building in Penningtonville, now Atlgen, and the location was found to be so convenient to its members that a larger brick structure was dedicated at the end of 1860. In 1870, Andrew and Margery Stewart gave the church an acre of ground for a nominal sum to establish a burial ground.

For the next 90 years, the Glen Run Baptist Church buried their dead here. Being contiguous to the Presbyterian Cemetery, some maps and newspapers referred to the burials grounds as a single entity, the Atglen Presbyterian and Baptist Cemetery; it would take some years for that to become the case.

In 1963, with the discontinuance of the Glen Run Baptist Church, management of the cemetery was turned over to the nonprofit Atlgen Baptist Cemetery, Inc. In 1986, the ground was sold to the nonprofit Presbyterian Cemetery Association and its management rolled into the overall Penningtonville Cemetery.

Today, both grounds are managed as the singular Penningtonville Cemetery, with interments in this ground referred to the "Baptist Section."

Because the distinctions between the grounds are no more than a strip of grass separating the two, interments in the Atglen Baptist Cemetery may (also) be listed in Penningtonville Cemetery.

The original Glen Run Baptist Church was founded in West Fallowfield Township in 1832, when a stone edifice was erected for the convenience of members of the Hephzibah Baptist Church living in the neighborhood along with a small burial ground. In 1857–58, John M. Phillips erected a two-story stone church building in Penningtonville, now Atlgen, and the location was found to be so convenient to its members that a larger brick structure was dedicated at the end of 1860. In 1870, Andrew and Margery Stewart gave the church an acre of ground for a nominal sum to establish a burial ground.

For the next 90 years, the Glen Run Baptist Church buried their dead here. Being contiguous to the Presbyterian Cemetery, some maps and newspapers referred to the burials grounds as a single entity, the Atglen Presbyterian and Baptist Cemetery; it would take some years for that to become the case.

In 1963, with the discontinuance of the Glen Run Baptist Church, management of the cemetery was turned over to the nonprofit Atlgen Baptist Cemetery, Inc. In 1986, the ground was sold to the nonprofit Presbyterian Cemetery Association and its management rolled into the overall Penningtonville Cemetery.

Today, both grounds are managed as the singular Penningtonville Cemetery, with interments in this ground referred to the "Baptist Section."

Because the distinctions between the grounds are no more than a strip of grass separating the two, interments in the Atglen Baptist Cemetery may (also) be listed in Penningtonville Cemetery.

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  • Added: 12 Apr 2008
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2257043