Oaklands Cemetery

Oaklands Cemetery is a rural cemetery founded in 1854 in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It is located at 1042 Pottstown Pike[1] and occupies roughly 26 acres (0.11 km2).

Oaklands Cemetery Gates

Oaklands Cemetery was founded as a response to the closure of graveyards within the borough of West Chester and the stoppage of future burials allowed within it. An act to incorporate the cemetery was passed by the Pennsylvania legislature and approved by Governor William F. Johnston on April 14, 1851. Land was purchased from Joseph L. Taylor located a mile and a half north of West Chester to become the cemetery, with a portion allotted for Catholic burials which became St. Agnes Cemetery. Roads were laid, a small lake was created, and a receiving vault, superintendent's cottage and gateway were built for the new cemetery. Oaklands Cemetery was dedicated on December 10, 1853[2] and burials from the closed borough cemeteries were reburied there the next year along with the start of new burials.

In 1895, additional land was purchased as an annex for the burial of black people.[3]

Notable burials
Isaac Dutton Barnard Memorial
John Hickman gravestone
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References
  1. "The Oaklands Cemetery". www.oaklandscemetery.org. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  2. Alfred L. Brophy, "These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead": Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery
  3. West Chester, Past and Present. West Chester, Pennsylvania: Daily Local News. 1899. p. 16. Retrieved 1 June 2019. oaklands cemetery.
  4. Samuel Barber

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