Lawnview Memorial Park
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Lawnview Memorial Park, also referred to as Lawnview Cemetery, is a cemetery located at 500 Huntingdon Pike in Rockledge, Pennsylvania. It is 82 acres (33 ha) in size and is managed by the Odd Fellows Cemetery Company of Philadelphia. It contains the reburial of tens of thousands of bodies from Monument Cemetery and the Odd Fellows Cemetery in Philadelphia after they were closed in the 1950s.
28,000 bodies were moved to Lawnview Cemetery from Monument Cemetery when it closed in 1956. However, most of the tombstones were used as riprap during the construction of the Betsy Ross Bridge and can be seen from the shore of the Delaware River at low tide
Flag Memorial to Veterans
The bronze profile of the Marquis de Lafayette originally from the Memorial in Monument Cemetery in Philadelphia. It was originally dedicated in 1869 and moved to Lawnview Cemetery in 1956
Hampton S. Thomas
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Hampton Sidney Thomas was a United States soldier who fought with the Union Army as a major in the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry during the American Civil War. He received his country's highest award for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his "conspicuous gallantry" on April 5, 1865, in the Battle of Amelia Springs, Virginia during which he captured an artillery battery and several enemy flags while also helping to destroy a wagon train of the Confederate States Army. The award was conferred on January 15, 1894.
