Norris City Cemetery

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Norris City Cemetery
Entrance to Norris City Cemetery.jpg
Entrance to Norris City Cemetery
Details
Established~1860
Location
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 40°08′26″N75°20′06″W / 40.14056°N 75.33500°W / 40.14056; -75.33500 Coordinates: 40°08′26″N75°20′06″W / 40.14056°N 75.33500°W / 40.14056; -75.33500
TypeMunicipal, Historic
StyleRural
Owned byEast Norriton Township
No. of graves~1800
No. of interments~2500
Website Norris City Cemetery
Find a Grave Norris City Cemetery

Norris City Cemetery is located at the corner of Stanbridge Street and Norris City Avenue in East Norriton Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Founded in the early 1860s, the cemetery came under township ownership in the late 1980s [1] after falling into disrepair, and is now maintained as part of East Norriton's parks system.

Its development was part of the so-called Rural Cemetery Movement, [2] and as such was nonsectarian and was not overseen by any specific municipality. Most graves were populated between 1880 and 1920, but the cemetery has remained active since. The cemetery is most ordinary: there are few elaborate graves and only one notable person buried here, Ephraim Acker (1827–1903), a US Congress Representative.

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References

  1. Scicchitano, Paul (December 30, 1987). "Cemetery May Become Parkland". Philadelphia Inquirer.
  2. "Landscape Architecture and the "Rural" Cemetery Movement".