Grandview Cemetery is an American cemetery that is located at 801 Millcreek Road in

Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown is the largest city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 18,411 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located east of Pittsburgh, it is the principal city of the Metropolitan statistical area ...

. Founded in 1885, the cemetery is one of Pennsylvania's largest, with more than 70,000 burials, including those of many victims of the 1889 Johnstown Flood. It was listed on the

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in 2025.

History and notable features

The cemetery association that operates Grandview was founded in 1885 to accommodate Johnstown's rapidly growing population. The first interment was that of Lucretia Hammond of Kernville (now a part of Johnstown), who was buried on April 30, 1887.
Grandview Cemetery on Johnstown, Pennsylvania website accessed September 7, 2009 The land for the cemetery, west of the city on Yoder Hill, was purchased from the

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. During the late 1880s, Millcreek Road, a steep and winding mile-long street, was built to facilitate public access to the cemetery's original entrance, but in 1904, cemetery overseers found it necessary to create a new entrance to the cemetery at Bucknell Avenue. The cemetery is best known due to the aftermath of the

Johnstown Flood The Johnstown Flood, sometimes referred to locally as the Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, 31 May 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, upstream of th ...

of 1889. Many of the flood's 2,209 victims are buried here. A section of the cemetery called the "Unknown Plot" contains the bodies of 777 flood victims who could not be identified, and a monument to the flood victims was purchased by the state of Pennsylvania and dedicated on May 31, 1892 before an estimated crowd of 10,000 that included the governor of Pennsylvania. In January 2024, the total number of interments at Grandview was more than 70,000. The cemetery contains forty-seven burial sections and more than , and is one of the largest in Pennsylvania.

Notable burials

* Warren Worth Bailey *

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* Elmer Cleveland *

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* John Graham McCrorey * Daniel Johnson Morrell *

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* George W. Reed * John Marshall Rose * John Phillips Saylor * Howard William Stull * Boyd Wagner * Anderson Howell Walters * George M. Wertz * John Irving Whalley

Notes

External links

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Grandview Cemetery at Johnstown, Pennsylvania website
* {{Johnstown, Pennsylvania Cemeteries in Pennsylvania Buildings and structures in Johnstown, Pennsylvania Protected areas of Cambria County, Pennsylvania Tourist attractions in Johnstown, Pennsylvania Cemeteries established in the 1880s 1885 establishments in Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Cambria County, Pennsylvania