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-'''Odd Fellows Cemetery''' was a 32 acre [[cemetery]] located North and South of Diamond Street and between 22nd and 25th Street<ref>{{cite news |title=Odd Fellows' Cemetery – Closing and Re-interment at Lawnview |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27512372/odd-fellows-cemetery-closing-and/ |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=5 January 1951 |page=44 |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> in the [[North Philadelphia West]] neighborhood of [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania. It was established in 1849 by the [[Odd Fellows]] fraternal organization for the burial of their members. The eighty-one foot high, brown stone, [[Egyptian Revival architecture|Egyptian Revival]] gatehouse was designed by architects [[Stephen Decatur Button]] and [[Joseph C. Hoxie]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=R.A. |title=Philadelphia as it is in 1852 |date=1852 |publisher=Lindsay & Blakiston |location=Philadelphia |pages=355–357 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wR0WAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA355 |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref>
+'''Odd Fellows Cemetery''' was a 32 acre [[cemetery]] located North and South of Diamond Street and between 22nd and 25th Street<ref>{{cite news |title=Odd Fellows' Cemetery – Closing and Re-interment at Lawnview |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27512372/odd-fellows-cemetery-closing-and/ |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |date=5 January 1951 |page=44 |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> in the [[North Philadelphia West]] neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1849 by the [[Odd Fellows]] fraternal organization for the burial of their members. The eighty-one foot high, brown stone, [[Egyptian Revival architecture|Egyptian Revival]] gatehouse was designed by architects [[Stephen Decatur Button]] and [[Joseph C. Hoxie]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=R.A. |title=Philadelphia as it is in 1852 |date=1852 |publisher=Lindsay & Blakiston |location=Philadelphia |pages=355–357 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wR0WAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA355 |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref>
 The Odd Fellows Cemetery was located a short distance from [[Glenwood Memorial Gardens|Old Glenwood Cemetery]] and adjoined the smaller [[Order of United American Mechanics|United American Mechanics']] Cemetery.<ref>{{cite book |title=United States Congressional Serial Set, Volume 1479 |date=1872 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylBHAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA28-PA12 |access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref>
-The cemetery was a part of the [[United States National Cemetery System]] during the [[American Civil War]] with a leased lot within the cemetery for 277 soldiers<ref>{{cite book |title=Message of the President of the United States and Accompanying, to the Two Houses of Congress |date=1868 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |page=931 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xkVfU4VjtD0C&pg=PA931 |access-date=10 January 2022}}</ref> that died in nearby hospitals. The soldiers' remains were reinterred to the [[Philadelphia National Cemetery]] in 1885.<ref name=Holt>{{cite book |last=Holt |first=Dean W.  |title=American Military Cemeteries, 2d ed. |publisher=McFarland |year=2009 |pages=397 [233]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UtGA-cP3-HsC&pg=PA233 |isbn=978-0786440238}}</ref>
+The cemetery was a part of the [[United States National Cemetery System]] during the American Civil War with a leased lot within the cemetery for 277 soldiers<ref>{{cite book |title=Message of the President of the United States and Accompanying, to the Two Houses of Congress |date=1868 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |page=931 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xkVfU4VjtD0C&pg=PA931 |access-date=10 January 2022}}</ref> that died in nearby hospitals. The soldiers' remains were reinterred to the [[Philadelphia National Cemetery]] in 1885.<ref name=Holt>{{cite book |last=Holt |first=Dean W.  |title=American Military Cemeteries, 2d ed. |publisher=McFarland |year=2009 |pages=397 [233]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UtGA-cP3-HsC&pg=PA233 |isbn=978-0786440238}}</ref>
 In 1951, the cemetery property was acquired by the [[Philadelphia Housing Authority]] for construction of the Raymond Rosen [[housing project]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Oordt |first1=Darcy |title=Haunted Philadelphia: Famous |date=2015 |publisher=Globe Pequot |location=Guilford, Connecticut |isbn=978-1493015795 |page=250 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FFAiCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA250 |accessdate=27 January 2022}}</ref> The bodies were moved to two other cemeteries owned by the Odd Fellows – [[Mount Peace Cemetery]] in Philadelphia and [[Lawnview Memorial Park]] in [[Rockledge, Pennsylvania]].<ref name=cembook/>  However, in 2013, workers unearthed 28 graves and remains that were not moved and were still under the playground of the William Dick school built in 1954.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Haas |first1=Kimberly |title=Playing on Hallowed Ground: Hidden Cemeteries and the Modern City |url=https://hiddencityphila.org/2020/02/playing-on-hallowed-ground-hidden-cemeteries-and-the-modern-city/ |website=www.hiddencityphila.org |date=10 February 2020 |accessdate=11 February 2020}}</ref>

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