Mausoleums, monuments and mushrooms: Captains of Williamsport’s industries buried and interred in Wildwood Cemetery
A must-see one-hour walking tour of Wildwood Cemetery in Williamsport is being offered. Wildwood Cemetery is large, encompassing 258 acres and has about 20 miles of roadways. The Mount Carmel section offers an impressive view overlooking the city. In this cemetery are buried and resting in peace the bodies of many captains of Williamsport industrial past. Some of them were lumber barons, who prospered during the Susquehanna Boom days, as the city became the “lumber capital of the world” and had more millionaires for a city of its size than anywhere as they made fortunes in ...