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Allegheny Cemetery Soldiers' Lot
Allegheny Cemetery
4734 Butler Street
Pittsburg, PA 15201
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Office Hours:
See General Information
Visitation Hours:
Open daily from sunrise to sunset.
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Burial Space:This soldiers' lot is closed to interments.
Acreage: 0.2
Floral/Ground Regulations
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Directions from nearest airport:
Take US 119 out of Grafton to Morgantown, West Virginia. Then take Interstate 68 West ramp towards Interstate 79. Merge onto Interstate 68 West. Take Interstate 79 North towards Washington, Pennsylvania. Take Interstate 70 West/Interstate 79 North exit on the left towards Washington, Pennsylvania. Merge onto Interstate 79 North. Take Interstate 79 North exit towards Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Merge onto Interstate 79 North. Take the Interstate 279 North exit number 14 towards Pittsburgh. Merge onto US 22 East. Stay straight to go onto Interstate 279 North. Take Interstate 279 North towards Ft. Duquesne Boulevard/Convention Center/Strip District. Take the PA 28 North exit number 13 towards Chestnut Street/East Ohio Street/ETNA. Merge onto PA 28 North. Take the 40th Street Bridge exit number 2, on the left. Turn right onto Washington Crossing Bridge. Washington Crossing Bridge becomes 40th Street. From 40th Street turn left onto Butler Street.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
The private and community cemeteries that contain NCA soldiers’ and government lots, and Confederate cemeteries, do not always have staffed offices on site. When administrative information for the larger cemetery is available, it is provided below.
Allegheny Cemetery
Phone: (412) 682-1624
Fax: (412) 622-0655
Website: http://www.alleghenycemetery.com
This soldiers’ lot is overseen by the West Virginia National Cemetery.
Please contact the national cemetery for more information.
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HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is among the oldest rural cemeteries in the United States. Forty of the most prominent citizens of the city—merchants, manufacturers, professionals and politicians—chartered the non-profit cemetery on April 24, 1844. The group purchased the first 100 acres for the cemetery for $50,000. Today the cemetery is composed of approximately 300 acres, in which about 120,000 persons are interred.
The soldiers’ lot is located in Section 33, lot 66, and consists of 303 individual interments. While most of the burials are Union Civil War soldiers, the lot also includes 15 Confederates and a small number of Spanish-American War veterans.
Soldiers were originally interred in two places within Allegheny Cemetery: the plot donated to the federal government by the cemetery association, and the “stranger’s field,” also known as the “potter’s field,” an area for the poor. It is likely that all the remains were consolidated into the soldiers’ lot in the 1870’s.
Allegheny Cemetery, including the National Cemetery Administration’s soldiers’ lot, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December 1980.
Monuments and Memorials
Following the Civil War, the Allegheny County Ladies Memorial Association commissioned local artist Fred Mayer to sculpt a monument for the soldier’s Lot. Erected in 1876, the 16-foot-tall limestone monument was dedicated in memory of those who died during the Civil War. The figure of a woman holding a wreath with her head bowed sits atop the monument, with four sculpted cannons located on the monument base. Two small cannons mounted on concrete bases mark the front of the soldiers’ lot.
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NOTABLE PERSONS
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FLORAL/GROUNDS REGULATIONS
Floral regulations are not available for this cemetery.
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