There are approx 40 tombstones in the Pennhurst Memorial Cemetery. 106 individual death certificates listed "Pennhurst Memorial Cemetery" or ""Pennhurst Pa." as the place of burial for former patients (mostly in the late teens and 1920's). So safe to say there are unmarked graves in the area of...
I should mention the lower campus (now privately owned but still state owned in 1988) has many buildings still standing. Many are in bad condition with collapsing roofs and even in the late 80's a couple of the buildings were in bad shape. More so than the demolished upper campus, urban...
The Pennhurst "upper campus" aka female colony was demolished (except for 1 building the National Guard uses) in late 2016-early 2017. Your picture is actually the torn down water tower and reservoir. Those buildings were long favorites of "urban explorers" so it might be safe to assume if...
The lower campus is privately owned and has new ownership. The upper campus where the search manager wanted to search is either state (near VA Hospital) federal (near National Guard Amory) or local township (East Vincent) owned. The "cemetery" mentioned in earlier posts is on East Vincent...
I don't think the unmarked graves has anything to do with it. I think they are still finding money (grants, donations etc) and the state is still demolishing and replacing street lights, paving roads etc... This was all to be done by the state before the park would be built. There are many...
You may have better luck speaking with a homeowner near the cemetery. Seems East Vincent isn't much help to you. The Pennhurst property has a long complicated history and people just want to forget it (including the township it seems). The graveyard lists over 100 burials on find a grave...
The area has recently undergone some changes. Because this was part of the Pennhurst property. Recently much on the "upper campus"of Pennhurst (which was state owned) was demolished. Much of the land that was formally state owned, is now owned by East Vincent Township. They plan on building a...
To the best of my knowledge, the township (East Vincent) cuts the grass at the cemetery. They may subcontract it out but it is maintained as you mentioned.
Just catching up on this. I think the work you have done is amazing and I wish LE had been more receptive to help on this case. I know quite a bit about the Pennhurst property. The cemetery where the memorial rock is located is actually behind Kathryn Lane and not King Street. However there...
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