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Greendale Cemetery

Serving as the main graveyard for the City of Meadville since 1852,
Greendale Cemetery is much more than its name implies. The
Cemetery is as much a park or arboretum as a burial ground. It
features the landscape design of Herman Munz, an architect who
helped lay out much of the older section of the cemetery as well as
planted thousands of rhododendrons on the property. These blossoms
are enjoyed by visitors and locals alike each spring.The cemetery
features walking trails near a waterfall as well as the final resting
places of the inventors of the zipper, the wife of a Supreme Court
Justice, those involved in the Underground Railroad and many more.
Hours are dawn to dusk and respectful visitors are welcome.

Image by Ashley Bradshaw Cramer

John Brown Tannery

John Brown, the abolitionist responsible for Bleeding Kansas and the
Raid on Harper’s Ferry, spent his earlier days in Crawford County,
Pennsylvania! Brown, a tanner and postmaster by trade at the time,
built a tannery in 1825 and spent the next ten years working on the
property as well as being an active stop on the Underground
Railroad.The tannery site is in a great state of preservation and
serves as an historic site and tourist attraction near New Richmond.
The property can be visited at 17620 John Brown Road, Guys Mills,
PA.

Woodlawn Cemetery

Just as with Greendale Cemetery, Woodlawn Cemetery is as breath-
takingly beautiful as it is utilitarian. The cemetery boasts acres of
paths, the grave and monuments for Ida Tarbell, Col. Edwin Drake
and more. View “The Driller,” a larger-than-life monument to Drake
and oil history, mausoleums dedicated to major players in our
nation’s oil heritage and the 1907 statue “Memory,” by Evelyn
Beatrice Longman. Hours are from dawn to dusk, and the cemetery
can be visited at 892 West Spring Street, Titusville.