Philadelphia National Cemetery

	Philadelphia National Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	New gates constructed in 1940.[1]
Location	Jct. of Haines St. and Limekiln Rd., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°03′31″N 75°09′18″W / 40.05861°N 75.15500°W
Area	13.3 acres (54,000 m2)
MPS	Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS
NRHP reference No.	97000775
Added to NRHP	July 24, 1997

Philadelphia National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1862 as nine leased lots in seven private cemeteries in the Philadelphia region. The current location was established in 1881, and the graves of soldiers were reinterred from the various leased lots. It is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and managed from offices at Washington Crossing National Cemetery.^[2] It is 13 acres in size and contains 13,202 burials.

The cemetery contains monuments commemorating the reinterment of soldiers from the Battle of Germantown and the Mexican–American War. A Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument was dedicated in 1912 to honor the reinterment of 184 Confederate prisoners of war who died in Philadelphia area hospitals and camps during the American Civil War.

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

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American Civil War cemeteries
Antietam Cold Harbor Gettysburg Philadelphia Salisbury For cemeteries that predated the Civil War and which have war inter- ments, see Civil War memorials.
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