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Seal for the Woodlands Cemetery. Reads: Woodlands Cemetery Company of Philaa. Depicted is a cemetery urn with a lyre and a
large tree on the right. A garden folly is in the far left background with the sun’s rays filling the sky. The Woodlands,
the former country seat of William Hamilton (1745-1813), was established as the Woodlands Cemetery Company of Philadelphia
in 1840. Located in West Philadelphia on the banks of the Schuylkill River, it has over 54 acres of land with over 30,000
people buried wherein.
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