Historic Landmark
Receiving Vault; in the days of hand digging graves, the receiving vault was used for those bodies that could not be buried in the winter when the grounds were frozen. The bodies were held in vaults such as this one until spring soften the frozen ground. 
The Kane Family Vault
General George Gordon Meade and Family Burial Plot
A Typical Family Burial Plot in the 19th Century
Hugh Mercer; personal physician of George Washington in the French and Indian War; Later served under Washington in the Revolutionary War; Fought at Trenton and died at Princeton.
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