Greenwood Cemetery (Pittsburgh)
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in the Pittsburgh suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, United States.
The cemetery was opened in 1874 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. Wilson's 1995 play Seven Guitars mentions the cemetery.
See also
References
- ^ "About Us". greenwoodpa.org. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
