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Logan Square Potter's Field

Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

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  • Get directions 200 North 19th Street
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103 USA
    Coordinates: 39.95790, -75.17060
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It is thought that burials in the Northwest Public Square began in the early part of the 18th century when the square was far out of the thickly settled parts of the City. With very little oversight capable by authorities, interments were largely unregulated until the early part of the 19th century, when the city officially took over use of the square as a potter's field.


On June 18th, 1812, City Council passed an ordinance to close all the public squares to interments, for which most had been used for some time. The ordinance noted that "for a considerable time the public square situated on the north side of Sassafras-street [now Race Street], and on the east and west sides of Schuylkill Fourth-street [now 19th street], ha[d], without any authority, been used as a place of interment, for the bodies of persons dying at the public Alms-house, at the State Prison, and Pennsylvania Hospital, and of strangers not belonging to any religious society." The same ordinance subsequently specified that the city enclose a burial ground at Ninth and Locust Streets for future public interments.


Burials in the Northwest Public Square were never moved, and in 1825 it was renamed Logan Square.


In 1890, a plumber excavating for a drain pipe in the vicinity of 248 North 19th Street (which has now been replaced by the Vine Street Expressway) uncovered an intact coffin and human remains. In 2009–2010, archaeologists identified approximately 60 intact burials at the location of the Sister Cities Park, across from the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul.

It is thought that burials in the Northwest Public Square began in the early part of the 18th century when the square was far out of the thickly settled parts of the City. With very little oversight capable by authorities, interments were largely unregulated until the early part of the 19th century, when the city officially took over use of the square as a potter's field.


On June 18th, 1812, City Council passed an ordinance to close all the public squares to interments, for which most had been used for some time. The ordinance noted that "for a considerable time the public square situated on the north side of Sassafras-street [now Race Street], and on the east and west sides of Schuylkill Fourth-street [now 19th street], ha[d], without any authority, been used as a place of interment, for the bodies of persons dying at the public Alms-house, at the State Prison, and Pennsylvania Hospital, and of strangers not belonging to any religious society." The same ordinance subsequently specified that the city enclose a burial ground at Ninth and Locust Streets for future public interments.


Burials in the Northwest Public Square were never moved, and in 1825 it was renamed Logan Square.


In 1890, a plumber excavating for a drain pipe in the vicinity of 248 North 19th Street (which has now been replaced by the Vine Street Expressway) uncovered an intact coffin and human remains. In 2009–2010, archaeologists identified approximately 60 intact burials at the location of the Sister Cities Park, across from the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul.

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  • Added: 15 Jun 2023
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2779979