Greenwood Cemetery (Pittsburgh)

This article is about the Greenwood Cemetery near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For other graveyards named Greenwood Cemetery, see Greenwood Cemetery (disambiguation).

Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in the Pittsburgh suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

The cemetery was opened in 1874[1] and is located approximately six miles northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh at 321 Kittanning Pike (zip code 15215).

Notables interred here include Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson.[2] Wilson's 1995 play Seven Guitars mentions the cemetery.[3]

  1. ^ "About Us". greenwoodpa.org. Retrieved 30 April 2012.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Wilson, August #13712". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
  3. ^ Glasco, Laurence A.; Rawson, Christopher (2015). August Wilson: Pittsburgh Places in His Life and Plays (2nd ed.). Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. pp. 128–129. ISBN 978-0-9969372-0-7.