First Presbyterian Church of West Chester Burial Ground
West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Get directions West Barnard Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19382, United StatesCoordinates: 39.95549, -75.60758
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Add PhotosLong before West Chester had a Presbyterian Church of its own, adherents were compelled to travel as far as the Great Valley Presbyterian Church to worship. Around 1830, a movement began to take shape to organize a church in the Borough and between 1832 and 1834, a church was built on the southeast corner of Miner and Darlington Streets.
About the year 1835, William Everhart and his wife Hannah, in an unrecorded deed, sold the church a lot of land in a section of the Borough of West Chester that was outside the main area of development and was not built up for use as a burying ground, immediately adjoining the burial ground of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the south side of West Barnard Street between New and Wayne Streets.
Within a short time, other denominations – Baptist and Episcopal – would also open up their burial grounds on the same block, and by 1848 the whole row would be burial grounds, in this order: beginning at New Street and extending to Wayne: First, the Baptist; second, Presbyterian; third, Methodist, fourth and last, Episcopal. The lots were of nearly the same size and extended back from Barnard Street to an alley that divided the square.
The pressures of ongoing development ultimately made the land on which the burial grounds were established too valuable. On July 31st, 1865, the congregation sold the burial ground to John F. Ingram to build housing. Their dead were taken up and moved elsewhere, many to Oaklands Cemetery, where the church had purchased a lot around the same time.
Long before West Chester had a Presbyterian Church of its own, adherents were compelled to travel as far as the Great Valley Presbyterian Church to worship. Around 1830, a movement began to take shape to organize a church in the Borough and between 1832 and 1834, a church was built on the southeast corner of Miner and Darlington Streets.
About the year 1835, William Everhart and his wife Hannah, in an unrecorded deed, sold the church a lot of land in a section of the Borough of West Chester that was outside the main area of development and was not built up for use as a burying ground, immediately adjoining the burial ground of the Methodist Episcopal Church on the south side of West Barnard Street between New and Wayne Streets.
Within a short time, other denominations – Baptist and Episcopal – would also open up their burial grounds on the same block, and by 1848 the whole row would be burial grounds, in this order: beginning at New Street and extending to Wayne: First, the Baptist; second, Presbyterian; third, Methodist, fourth and last, Episcopal. The lots were of nearly the same size and extended back from Barnard Street to an alley that divided the square.
The pressures of ongoing development ultimately made the land on which the burial grounds were established too valuable. On July 31st, 1865, the congregation sold the burial ground to John F. Ingram to build housing. Their dead were taken up and moved elsewhere, many to Oaklands Cemetery, where the church had purchased a lot around the same time.
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West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
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West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Added: 26 Jul 2023
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2782387
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