Philadelphia's Mount Moriah Cemetery has been officially closed and abandoned since 2011, its 380 acres now overgrown, the over 85,000 graves consumed by an encroaching forest. Incorporated in ...

Mount Moriah is a ghost of a graveyard. The final resting place of Betsy Ross and more than 80,000 others, this cemetery is tucked between Philadelphia and Yeadon like a forgotten Victorian bookmark.

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The 58th Street Greenway at Woodland Ave., en route to Mount Moriah Cemetery. (Thom Carroll/PhillyVoice) The 58th Street Greenway, which opened in June of 2013, will take you past ballfields ...

The conditions at Mount Moriah cemetery are so bad, it took Michael Simpson well over an hour to find his mother’s grave. But he faced an entirely different problem when his great aunt died last ...

The Mount Moriah Cemetery on Kingsessing Avenue in southwest Philadelphia was established in 1855. Originally a 54-acre parcel along Cobbs Creek, the cemetery later grew to 380 acres and ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --In April, Mount Moriah Cemetery in Southwest Philadelphia unexpectedly shutdown after years of worsening conditions. In the months since, gravestones were toppled over and ...

Mount Moriah Cemetery Cleanup Begins By David Chang • Published July 16, 2011 • Updated on July 16, 2011 at 7:13 pm Mayor Michael Nutter and a group of volunteers were hard at work in ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A Pennsylvania house Democratic policy committee was in Philadelphia yesterday to hear testimony on who is responsible and what can be done to rebuild a historic cemetery now ...

On the edge of Philadelphia, Mount Moriah cemetery sprawls over 380 acres, spreading into Delaware County and sheltering 80,000 thousand graves. But when Paulette Rhone goes there to visit her ...

The cemetery dates back to the 19th century. Unlike more exclusive graveyards, such as The Woodlands two miles to its northeast, Mount Moriah welcomed African-Americans, Jews, and people of modest ...