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Cliveden (Benjamin Chew House)
Philadelphia, PA
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Orientation
Where it is
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The record
Laurel Hill Cemetery opened in 1836 on a bluff above the Schuylkill River in what is now East Falls, designed by the Scottish architect John Notman as one of the first architecturally planned cemeteries in America and the second rural cemetery in the country after Boston's Mount Auburn. Conceived as much as a public garden and outdoor sculpture park as a burial ground — it drew tens of thousands of visitors in its early decades and helped inspire Fairmount Park — it is a National Historic Landmark, added to the National Register in 1977. Among its many notable interments are George Meade, the Union commander at Gettysburg, several Titanic victims, and the astronomer and first U.S. Mint director David Rittenhouse. The cemetery is still active and open to the public, and runs its own walking tours and seasonal after-dark programming; reported paranormal accounts are part of the site's tour tradition rather than documented fact.
Field reports
Reported phenomena
Logged by the host and by previous investigators. Reported, not verified.
- Reported · Activity at long-cited 'hot spots' during tours (framed as tour tradition, not fact)
Chronology
History
1998
Designated a National Historic Landmark
Laurel Hill became the first cemetery in the United States to be designated a National Historic Landmark, twenty-one years after its 1977 listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
Submitted by visitors
Evidence
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