PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- There's a new deal on the horizon for a historic, border-straddling cemetery that took years to fall into disrepair and will likely need years to mount a comeback. It is just ...

For more than five years, a group of volunteers and preservationists has been slowly bringing the historic Mount Moriah Cemetery in Southwest Philadelphia back from oblivion. Established in 1855, the ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A Pennsylvania house Democratic policy committee was in Philadelphia yesterday to hear testimony on who is responsible and what can be done to rebuild a historic cemetery now ...

Mount Moriah is a ghost of a graveyard. The final resting place of Betsy Ross and more than 80,000 others, this cemetery is tucked between Philadelphia and Yeadon like a forgotten Victorian bookmark.

PHILADELPHIA — Many of the estimated thousands of Civil War soldiers buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery likely took a bullet for the country. Bill Paullin figured he could take a few raindrops for them. ...

Sprawled across almost 400 acres of land, encompassing the Borough of Yeadon and along Philadelphia’s neighboring Cobbs Creek, sits the historic Mount Moriah Cemetery. Incorporated in 1855, the final ...

YEADON >> On the border of Yeadon and Philadelphia, unbeknownst to many, in Mount Moriah Cemetery are the remains of veterans dating back to the Revolutionary War. Some are Medal of Honor recipients.

For years, Mt. Moriah Cemetery was abandoned. Trees, vines and bushes grew over the graves. The brush hid obelisks from view and roots cracked monuments' stone. Approximately 200 acres - reclaimed by ...

A 1930s tombstone among the plants. Photo: Allison Meier Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Philadelphia's Mount ...

Mayor Michael Nutter and a group of volunteers were hard at work in Southwest Philadelphia on Saturday. The volunteers began the long process of cleaning up one of Philly’s oldest and largest ...

Michael Simpson described an hour spent at Mount Moriah Cemetery as an "Easter egg hunt" and a "wild goose chase." The Southwest Philadelphia cemetery has been in disarray for decades, with mounds of ...

The cemetery dates back to the 19th century. Unlike more exclusive graveyards, such as The Woodlands two miles to its northeast, Mount Moriah welcomed African-Americans, Jews, and people of modest ...