Western Burial Ground was closed for the construction of the original Friends Select School building. Remains buried there were relocated [...]
Additional adjacent farmland was purchased to enlarge FSWBG to its current 14+ acres.
Friends Southwestern Burial Ground was founded, open to people of any faith seeking a simple burial. Those buried here include [...]
Farmland was purchased in Upper Darby by two Philadelphia Quaker meetings to create a new, larger burial ground. Why did [...]
Arch Street Meetinghouse was constructed. Many of the remains buried there earlier were relocated to the Friends Western Burial Ground [...]
Yellow fever epidemic killed roughly 5,000 of Philadelphia’s population of 50,000. Arch Street burial ground was the location of one [...]
William Penn deeded land at 4th and Arch Streets to the Quakers to run a burial ground for the whole [...]
