Temple University
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Temple University is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Baptist Temple. On May 12, 1888, it was renamed the Temple College of Philadelphia. By 1907, the institution had revised its institutional status and been incorporated as a research university.
Postcard depicting the original Baptist Temple and Russell Conwell
President Harry S. Truman visits Temple University.
Martin Luther King Jr. lecturing at Temple University in 1965
Mazur Hall
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