Overview
Leverington Cemetery spreads along Ridge Avenue in Philadelphia's Roxborough neighbourhood, burying local families since 1744 — among the city's older community cemeteries, its stones including Revolutionary War soldiers, mill families of the Wissahickon's industrial valley, and generations of the Levering line that named the ground; a friends' association and neighbourhood volunteers help tend it today, its rolling acres a green seam through the rowhouse ridge. Its ghost telling is the neighbourhood kind, modest and persistent: walkers and residents describe figures among the older sections at dusk, small lights along the ridge paths, a woman near the Civil War-era stones, voices, and cold pockets on warm evenings — accounts without documented anchor that local ghost walks retell alongside Roxborough's older Wissahickon legends. The record keeps them brief: Leverington's value is documentary, the neighbourhood's story in stone, and visits mean daylight, courtesy and care among real families' graves. Present the cemetery as Roxborough heritage first, its lore a light local seasoning.