Philadelphia County PA Archives News.....Sale of Philanthropic Cemetery Land 1914
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Philadelphia Inquirer 1914
The Philadelphia Inquirer
05 Jun 1914, Page 13

Philanthropic Cemetery at Twelfth and Dickinson Streets Sold-93 Houses to 
Built on Land
  The old burial ground at the southeast corner of Twelfth and Dickinson 
streets has been sold by the Philanthropic Cemetery to A. J. Margolin.  The 
price paid is not disclosed.  The property has the following frontages.  240 
feet on Twelfth street, 120 feet on Dickinson street, 140 feet on Tasker 
street and 170 feet on Passyunk avenue by 125 feet on the southwest line and 
370 feet on teh northeast line.  The land will be developed by the purchaser, 
who will erect on the site an operation of 93 dwellings.  The total 
expenditure for the land and the improvements will approximate $200,000.



The Philadelphia Inquirer
07 Aug 1914, Page 13

Wish to Abandon Old Cemetery
  The first legal step in the proposed abandonment of the cemetery of the 
Philanthropic Burial Grounds Association at Passyunk avenue, Twelfth, Tasker 
and Dickinson streets, was taken yesterday in Quarter Sessions Court.  Judge 
Audenried signed an order directed to parties interested to show cause why the 
bodies not in the cemetery should not be removed to some other burial ground 
and re-interred.  The rule will be argued on August 31.


The Philadelphia Inquirer
01 Sep 1914, Page 6

Quarter Sessions
  Judge Audenried heard objections to sale of the Philanthropic Burial Grounds 
and removal of bodies to Arlington Cemetery.


The Philadelphia Inquirer
03 Sep 1914, Page 8

AUTHORIZES CEMETERY SALE
Judge Also Directs That Bodies May Be Removed
  Complaints of lot holders having been heard and adjusted in the matter of 
the abandonment of the cemetery of the Philanthropic Burial Grounds 
Association, at Twelfth and Tasker streets, Judge Audenried, in Quarter 
Sessions Court yesterday, entered a decree authorizing the removal of the 
boides and the sale of the ground.
  The Philanthropic Burial Grounds Association was organized in 1834, and 
there ar now about 800 lot holders with 10,000 to 12,000 bodies interred in 
the grounds.  The prospective purchaser of the old cemetery made an offer of 
$67,000.  The cemetery contains little over two acres of ground.




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