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- Regular Hours:
Mon - Fri Sat Sun Closed - Phone:
Main - 866-574-5143
- Address:
- 1119 Centre Ave Reading, PA 19601
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- Categories
- Cemeteries, Cemetery Equipment & Supplies, Funeral Supplies & Services
- Services / Products
- Headstones, Crematories, Mausoleums, Cemeteries, Permanent Memorials, Funeral Services, Cremation Monuments, Burials, Grave Site Markers, Mausoleums
- Payment Options
- Brands
- Mausoleums
- Neighborhood
- Northwest Reading
General Info
The Cemetery was founded in 1846 by Charles Evans, a prominent local lawyer and philanthropist who desired to establish a nonsectarian cemetery where the friends and relatives of those departed might linger and meditate. Employing unusual vision, Charles Evans selected and purchased 25 acres of land on a prominent hilltop situated, at that time, a mile outside the City limits. It was to be for all people of Reading, a dignified place of interment where natural beauty would be preserved and enhanced with the years. He provided money for a Trust Fund to be used solely for the purpose of making the Cemetery even more beautiful with the passing years - to provide perpetual maintenance of its buildings, trees, shrubbery and spacious lawns.