Easton Cemetery

Easton Cemetery occupies about ninety-nine acres on a plateau and hillside beside Bushkill Creek in Easton, Pennsylvania. Incorporated on April 5, 1849, it was laid out by civil engineer James Charles Sidney in a romantic picturesque manner, with winding macadam lanes, limestone gutters and burial sections separated by irregular plots. A New Section, laid out from 1870 by William Sebring, extended the grounds to the west. The cemetery holds family plots of local industrialists and professionals, along with graves of people tied to local, state and national events. Its masonry features include a Greek Revival cemetery vault from the 1850s, a Gothic Revival chapel of about 1875, and a monumental Gothic Revival gateway at Seventh Street, c. 1882. Marble, granite and cast iron monuments and urns survive in quantity. The nomination treats the grounds as an early example of the romantic cemetery movement in the region, with a surviving landscape of trees and funerary art from the 1840s to the 1920s.