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Built in the 1720s, even before the creation of the Borough, The Mount Bethel Cemetery Co. is the oldest burial ground still in use in the Columbia area. The earliest legible marker is dated 1745. Nearly 300 years old, the cemetery holds the remains of over ten thousand of its former citizens. Visitors and citizens interested in the rich genealogy of the town can readily find them in the cemetery’s computer records. A survey of markers and genealogy account was also published by a Frank X Reuss in the Columbia Papers in 1903.

Interesting things to note about the cemetery include the fact that smallpox burials in 1902 were conducted by midnight, with only two special people in attendance. Nowadays, the cemetery is maintained through the combined efforts of citizens, well-meaning benefactors, the sale of a few lots, and an annual fundraiser.

Address: 700 Locust Street, Columbia, PA 17512, Phone: 717-684-2370

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