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- HoursCLOSED NOW
- Regular Hours:
Mon - Fri Sat Sun Closed - Phone:
Main - 866-585-3671
- Address:
- 1119 Centre Avenue Reading, PA 19601
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- Cemeteries
- Services / Products
- Headstones, Permanent Memorials, Funeral Services, Mausoleums, Cemeteries, Crematories, Burials, Cremation Monuments, Mausoleums, Grave Site Markers
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- 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.