Stones and Bones Ep. 9 - Laurel Hill Cemetery

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia became a part of the rural cemetery movement shortly after it started, becoming the third garden cemetery in America to be founded. This was not long after Mount Hope Cemetery in Maine was dedicated and revealed that the movement was spreading along the East Coast. The cemetery was much needed as the growing city had already filled up most of its churchyards. Laurel Hill would become an example for future cemeteries and today is still beloved by the residents of Philly who flock to it to enjoy the beautiful headstones, monuments and mausoleums. Laurel Hill has an important place in the history of cemeteries in America.

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0:00.0	There are places for our dead.
0:05.0	Places of peace and not dread.
0:11.0	Sites of simple or elaborate stones that memorialize our lost one's bones.
0:23.0	Welcome to stones and bones.
0:29.0	Whoa.
0:31.0	Oh.
0:32.2	Oh.
0:33.2	Welcome to stones and bones.
0:40.7	Whoa.
0:44.5	Hello, you spectacular people.
0:47.0	Welcome to Stones and Bones number nine.
0:50.4	I am your host, Diane.
0:51.6	And this is Kelly.
0:52.9	Kelly on this episode, we're going to be featuring Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philly.
0:58.2	Very good, looking forward to it.
0:59.7	This is one cemetery that I have not visited yet, and I really want to get to it.
1:17.2	Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia became a part of the rural cemetery movement shortly after it started,
1:20.7	becoming the third garden cemetery in America to be founded.
1:25.7	This was not long after Mount Hope Cemetery in Maine was dedicated,
1:28.4	and revealed that the movement was spreading along the East Coast. The cemetery was much needed as the growing city had already filled up most of its
1:34.4	churchyards. Laurel Hill would become an example for future cemeteries and today is still
1:40.4	beloved by the residents of Philly, who flocked to it to enjoy the beautiful headstones,
	...

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