Woodlands Cemetery Co

The Woodlands is a garden of biographies--the culmination of eighteenth and nineteenth century landscape ideals offered in a park-like setting.

This cemetery gets its name from Alexander Hamilton's house, Woodlands, which is also on the premises and has been in use for over two centuries. Exquisitely crafted neo-classical crypts, mausoleums and obelisks dominate the Woodlands cemetery. The cemetery is most well known for its famous 'guests' that were once part of the Philadelphia elite. Take a historically rewarding, free day trip and...