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Category: Highwood Cemetery

On the North Side next to the larger Union Dale Cemetery, this cemetery has a few mausoleums worth seeing, and is especially notable for its picturesquely steep hills.


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Milligan Monument, Highwood Cemetery

A sort-of-classical, sort-of-medieval urn-topped monument for a clergyman (who died on a train crossing Wyoming) and his family. with an epitaph from Deuteronomy. As is almost usual for family monuments from the nineteenth century, it includes the names of several children who did not survive to adulthood.

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 29 October 2020 Category Highwood Cemetery Tags Urns Milligan

Fall Landscapes, Highwood Cemetery

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 29 October 2020 Category Highwood Cemetery Tags Fall Colors Autumn Landscapes

Bubb Obelisk, Highwood Cemetery

A typical obelisk from the late 1800s; Rebecca Bubb died in 1896, and Father Pitt suspects that is when the obelisk was raised. It is mostly an excuse to show off a glorious maple tree.

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 26 October 2020 Category Highwood Cemetery Tags Obelisks Bubb

Taylor-Langfitt Mausoleum, Highwood Cemetery

Taylor-Langfitt mausoleum

A small classical mausoleum in very good taste; the Boston ivy is always a picturesque touch, but especially in the fall. The name “Taylor” was added to the pediment later.

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 26 October 2020 Category Highwood Cemetery Tags Taylor Langfitt Mausoleums Classical

Fall Colors in Highwood Cemetery

Fall Colors in Highwood Cemetery

A landscape with fall colors in the Highwood Cemetery, which is hilly even by Pittsburgh standards.

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 24 October 2020 Category Highwood Cemetery Tags Fall Colors Autumn
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