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Lansdale Cemetery Association records
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Held at: Lansdale Historical Society [Contact Us]137 Jenkins Ave., Lansdale, Pa., 19446
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Lansdale Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Lansdale Cemetery is the largest in the Borough of Lansdale in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania - more than 3,000 people are buried there. It was originally run as a for-profit company by the Lansdale Cemetery Association, incorporated June 7, 1880, until the original board of trustees passed on in the 1950s. In 1964/1965, the Association was replaced by the nonprofit Lansdale Cemetery, Inc. As of 2012, the cemetery still hosts burials and contains roughly 200 unoccupied plots.
Bibliography:
"Lansdale Looking into Cemetery Takeover." North Penn Life. Accessed November 26, 2012. http://montgomerynews.com/articles/2012/06/30/north_penn_life/news/doc4fedbbbeedca8230776680.txt
This collection consists of various administrative and financial records of the Lansdale Cemetery Association. The administrative records consist of: minutes, 1880-1947; deeds, 1863-1933; rules and regulations, 1880; a railroad bond, 1900; and several wills. The financial records consist of: check stubs, 1888-1932; treasurer's book, 1880-1922; Social Security and unemployment wage records with payroll information, 1936-1943; and stock certificates, 1880-1944, and dividend book, 1897-1918. There are also records from the Association's Permanent Fund: subscription book, 1888-1918, and proceedings, 1888-1911.
Gift of Lansdale Cemetery Association, 2012.
Summary descriptive information on this collection was compiled in 2012-2014 as part of a project conducted by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to make better known and more accessible the largely hidden collections of small, primarily volunteer run repositories in the Philadelphia area. The Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories (HCI-PSAR) was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This is a preliminary finding aid. No physical processing, rehousing, reorganizing, or folder listing was accomplished during the HCI-PSAR project.
In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Lansdale Historical Society directly for more information.
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- Lansdale Historical Society
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- Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Faith Charlton through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
- Sponsor
- This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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