Hagel Family Burial Ground
Also known as Hagel Cemetery
Nicetown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Get directions Near 20th and Erie, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140, United StatesCoordinates: 40.00965, -75.16126
- This cemetery is marked as being historical or removed.
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Add PhotosThe Hagel family were relative latecomers to Penn Township, having purchased a farm near the village of Nicetown after the American Revolution. In the first part of the 19th century, Michael Hagel, in an undated codicil to his will proved November 5, 1822, noted that he had purchased "a lot of land of Henry Davis adjoining my property in Penn Township near Nicetown . . . and having laid out a lot on the westerly end thereof of forty five feet wide and on the same width two hundred seventy one feet deep bounded westerly by land of John Rheiner and southerly by a lane thirty three feet wide now I will and devise that the same may be and remain a burial place for myself and my family and any of my neighbors and their descendants forever."
What began as a rural part of Penn Township became increasingly attractive for development with the arrival of the Philadelphia, Norristown, and Germantown and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroads in Nicetown, part of the former cleaving the family farm in two. By the 1870s, the area was a hub of industry and housing, and the Hagels had established a brickyard and a coal yard on their property at Nicetown Station.
Around the year 1879, the burial ground was removed, at least one burial from there being removed to Mount Peace Cemetery.
No trace of the old burial ground remains today.
The Hagel family were relative latecomers to Penn Township, having purchased a farm near the village of Nicetown after the American Revolution. In the first part of the 19th century, Michael Hagel, in an undated codicil to his will proved November 5, 1822, noted that he had purchased "a lot of land of Henry Davis adjoining my property in Penn Township near Nicetown . . . and having laid out a lot on the westerly end thereof of forty five feet wide and on the same width two hundred seventy one feet deep bounded westerly by land of John Rheiner and southerly by a lane thirty three feet wide now I will and devise that the same may be and remain a burial place for myself and my family and any of my neighbors and their descendants forever."
What began as a rural part of Penn Township became increasingly attractive for development with the arrival of the Philadelphia, Norristown, and Germantown and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroads in Nicetown, part of the former cleaving the family farm in two. By the 1870s, the area was a hub of industry and housing, and the Hagels had established a brickyard and a coal yard on their property at Nicetown Station.
Around the year 1879, the burial ground was removed, at least one burial from there being removed to Mount Peace Cemetery.
No trace of the old burial ground remains today.
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- Added: 15 Sep 2023
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2785930
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