Virtual Walking Tour of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
The Talleyrand Park Citizens Committee
Bellefonte Historical and Cultural Association

Stop 36.  Union Cemetery

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Located on East Howard Street, the Union Cemetery is the burial site of many of Bellefonte's early pioneers.  Here rests Evan Pugh, first President of The Pennsylvania State University; soldiers of negro units of the famous Union "Army of James" in the Civil War; United States Senator Andrew Gregg; Governors Curtin, Beaver and Hastings; George Harris, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Civil War; and numerous other Bellefonte residents who contributed greatly to the destiny of the American Nation.  Names of the buried in Union Cemetery can be searched online.