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RE: Site numbers and historic cemeteries
In Pennsylvania, we do assign site numbers to historic cemeteries.
Several have been declared eligible to the National Register under
criterion D for the information they can contribute to studies of
historic demography, health, and other types of mortuary studies.
Two of the larger projects that I can think of are the First African
Baptist Church cemetery in Philadelphia and the Voegtly cemetery
(circa 1830-1860) in Pittsburgh. We also have a burial policy
that provides guidelines for how to proceed when human burials
are discovered during construction.
Dorothy Humpf
PA Historical and Museum Commission