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Lafayette Cemetery was established in 1828 on the block between Federal and Wharton Streets and 9th and 10th Avenues<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scharf |first1=John Thomas |title=History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884 |date=1884 |publisher=L.H. Everts & Co. |location=Philadelphia |page=2359 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8uYkAAAAYAAJ }}</ref> in what was then [[Passyunk Township, Pennsylvania|Passyunk Township]], later renamed the [[Passyunk Square]] neighborhood of [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].<ref name=Haas/> The Honorable [[Joel Barlow Sutherland]] was one of the founders.<ref>{{cite book |title=An Historical Catalogue of the St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia |date=1907 |publisher=The St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia |location=Philadelphia |pages=336–337 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q9pS4mIGrjsC&pg=PA337 }}</ref> | Lafayette Cemetery was established in 1828 on the block between Federal and Wharton Streets and 9th and 10th Avenues<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scharf |first1=John Thomas |title=History of Philadelphia, 1609–1884 |date=1884 |publisher=L.H. Everts & Co. |location=Philadelphia |page=2359 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8uYkAAAAYAAJ }}</ref> in what was then [[Passyunk Township, Pennsylvania|Passyunk Township]], later renamed the [[Passyunk Square]] neighborhood of [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].<ref name=Haas/> The Honorable [[Joel Barlow Sutherland]] was one of the founders.<ref>{{cite book |title=An Historical Catalogue of the St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia |date=1907 |publisher=The St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia |location=Philadelphia |pages=336–337 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q9pS4mIGrjsC&pg=PA337 }}</ref> | ||
Lafayette Cemetery was a part of the [[United States National Cemetery System]] during the | Lafayette Cemetery was a part of the [[United States National Cemetery System]] during the American Civil War with a leased lot within the cemetery for soldiers that died in nearby hospitals.<ref name=Holt/> The cemetery contained the graves 28 Union soldiers, many of which were reinterred to the [[Philadelphia National Cemetery]] in 1885.<ref>{{cite book |title=Roll of Honor: Names of Soldiers who died in Defence of the American Union, Interred in the National Cemeteries and Other Burial Places |date=1868 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |pages=159–160 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4Z4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA159 }}</ref><ref name=Holt>{{cite book |last=Holt |first=Dean W. |title=American Military Cemeteries, 2d ed. |publisher=McFarland |year=2009 |pages=397 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UtGA-cP3-HsC&pg=PA233 |isbn=978-0786440238}} See p. 233.</ref> | ||
The cemetery was originally designed to hold 14,000 bodies<ref name=Wicked/> and was surrounded by an iron fence.<ref>{{cite book |title=Executive Documents Printed by Order of The House of Representatives 1879-'71 |date=1871 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |page=233 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hHtBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA233 }}</ref> By 1946, it was in disrepair and overcrowded with 47,000 bodies. The city wanted to close the cemetery as early as the 1920s but the [[Great Depression]] and [[World War II]] delayed the process.<ref name=Wicked>{{cite book |last1=Keels |first1=Thomas H. |title=Wicked Philadelphia: Sin in the City of Brotherly Love |date=2010 |publisher=The History Press |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=978-1-61423-105-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yagjCgAAQBAJ}}</ref> | The cemetery was originally designed to hold 14,000 bodies<ref name=Wicked/> and was surrounded by an iron fence.<ref>{{cite book |title=Executive Documents Printed by Order of The House of Representatives 1879-'71 |date=1871 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |page=233 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hHtBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA233 }}</ref> By 1946, it was in disrepair and overcrowded with 47,000 bodies. The city wanted to close the cemetery as early as the 1920s but the [[Great Depression]] and [[World War II]] delayed the process.<ref name=Wicked>{{cite book |last1=Keels |first1=Thomas H. |title=Wicked Philadelphia: Sin in the City of Brotherly Love |date=2010 |publisher=The History Press |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=978-1-61423-105-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yagjCgAAQBAJ}}</ref> | ||