Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in the Pittsburgh suburb of O'Hara Township, Pennsylvania, United States.

The cemetery was opened in 1874[1] and is located approximately six miles northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh at 321 Kittanning Pike (zip code 15215).

Notables interred here include Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson.[2] Wilson's 1995 play Seven Guitars uses the cemetery as a setting.

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References

  1. ↑ "About Us". greenwoodpa.org. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  2. ↑ Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Wilson, August #13712". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
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