Upper Burial Ground

Upper Burial Ground

Cemetery where 58 American soldiers are buried from the Battle of Germantown in the American Revolution. It is adjacent to the Concord Schoolhouse in Germantown, Philadelphia.

Sources

Jenkins, Charles Francis. The Guide Book to Historic Germantown, Prepared for the Site & Relic Society. 1926.


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