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Something is blooming in the cemetery...witch hazel!

This Saturday at 9am join the National Audubon Society’s annual Great Backyard Bird Count at Laurel Hill Cemetery. This is a fun and free event with representatives from the Academy of Natural Sciences on hand to help visitors identify different bird species!

Join us this Saturday, February 9th at 11am for an afternoon tour, featuring some of our more romantic permanent residents. We recommend purchasing your tickets in advance. This tour will sell out!

Not everyday you get to bring a coffin home! Come see our newly acquired 1800s toe pincher coffin on display with a corpse preserver in our Museum... M-F 8:30 to 4:30 and S-S 9:30 to 4:30!

Book blowout! Reduced prices on many titles. Shop now online or in store ! http://laurel-hill-cemetery.mybigcommerce.com/books/

Strange Death! Poor Gertrude succumbed to...custard. She rests in Sec. 14 Lot 261 with her husband who did not indulge that day in the deadly sweet treat. An article was written a year later in the New York Polyclinic which attributed her death and the sickness of her household to Ptomaine Poisoning, also know as food poisoning from bacteria. The article only speaks of one death so it is assumed Frederick B. miles Jr. survived...for he is not buried here. Gertrude was only 49.

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