Greenwood Cemetery (Pittsburgh)

Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in the Pittsburgh suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

This article is about the Greenwood Cemetery near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For other graveyards named Greenwood Cemetery, see Greenwood Cemetery (disambiguation).

The cemetery was opened in 1874[1] and is located approximately six miles northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh at 321 Kittanning Pike (zip code 15215).

Notables interred here include Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson.[2] Wilson's 1995 play Seven Guitars uses the cemetery as a setting.

See also

References
  1. "About Us". greenwoodpa.org. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  2. Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Wilson, August #13712". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
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