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Germantown Potter's Field

Also known as Burying Ground in Bowman's Lane , Germantown Colored Burial Ground , Queen Lane Burial Ground , Riters Lane Burial Ground , Germantown Strangers' Burying Ground , Queen Street Poor Ground , Queen Street Public Ground , Germantown Public Burial Ground , Germantown Township Ground

Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA

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Get directions 323 West Queen Lane
Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 19144

Coordinates: 40.02632, -75.17471
This cemetery is marked as being historical or removed.
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In 1755, Matthias Zimmerman purchased a lot at what is now West Queen Lane and Pulaski Avenue to be a burial place for all "Negroes. . . and Mulattoes as they Die in any part of Germantown forever." Burials began that same year but the first known documented burial was March 25, 1766. Burials continued until 1916. This cemetery was known by a number of different names, including the "Colored burial lot at Germantown" and the "Germantown Potter's Field." In 1955, the Queen Lane Apartment tower was built over the cemetery. That building was demolished in 2014. The site is currently (2020) a fenced-off, empty field.

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