{"nrhp_refnum":"10001031","name":"Eden Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1434 Springdale Rd","address_restricted":false,"city":"Collingdale","county":"Delaware County","state":"PA","lat":39.92186817600003,"lon":-75.27915821891389,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2010-12-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Eden Cemetery is a 49-acre public cemetery in Collingdale Borough, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, with over 90,000 gravesites in twenty-three sections. It was established in 1902 by the Eden Cemetery Company for the African American community.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery is significant under Criterion A for Ethnic Heritage-Black. It received re-interments from condemned Philadelphia African American cemeteries and became a burial ground open to African Americans in the region during the Jim Crow era. It is presented as an example of African American efforts to control burial in a segregated period.","narrative":"Eden Cemetery occupies 49 acres in Collingdale Borough, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and holds more than 90,000 gravesites across twenty-three named sections. The Eden Cemetery Company established it in 1902 as a burial ground for African Americans in the Philadelphia region, at a time when many cemeteries in the area excluded them or set aside segregated plots. Four original sections, Celestine, Lebanon, Home and Olive, were laid out first, and Lebanon and Olive received burials moved from older Philadelphia African American cemeteries. Other sections are named for Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman and Richard Allen. The cemetery's significance lies in its role as a community-owned burial place during segregation and in its continued use by African Americans across the region. The grounds are laid out in a pastoral lawn-park style, and the 1972 administration building is non-contributing.","period_of_significance":"1902 - 1960","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.233255-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/10001031.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10001031/74100e7538-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/10001031/74100e7538-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Lblanchard","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Octavius_Catto_grave.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lblanchard</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Octavius_Catto_grave.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995101","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Cemetery_(Collingdale,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5336824"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/delaware-county/eden-cemetery-10001031/"}