Octavius Catto
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Eden Cemetery Restoring Identities of Those With Untold Legacies
The Negro League Baseball Grave Marker Project at Eden Cemetery is giving recognition to those who have received none, writes Brian Seltzer for KYW Podcasts.…
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Remembering Delaware County’s Black Baseball Players
The Eden Cemetery in Collingdale is the final resting place for about 17 ball players from the Negro Leagues. But you’d never know it. The…
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Cemeteries Like Eden in Darby Offer History and an Escape to Nature
Beyond the intended purpose for cemeteries, they are a natural refuge from the concrete and asphalt of urban and suburban life, places like Eden Cemetery,…
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Work Underway to Preserve Collingdale’s Eden Cemetery Archives
Eden Cemetery in Collingdale is the final resting place for many influential Black Philadelphians, including Absalom Jones, Marian Anderson, Octavius Catto, Julian Abele, Frances Harper,…
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Finding African American History at Darby Borough’s Eden Cemetery
A visit to a local cemetery can offer peace and quiet outdoors away from the confines of your home, writes Claire Sasko for phillymag.com. Eden…

























