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#369658 09/27/11 12:55 PM
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Pennsylvania in general and Somerset County (Pa.) in particular have been in the midst of identifying graveyards both active and abandoned. The following link is to a very small graveyard in Brothersvalley Township that is the property of St. Peter & Paul Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in nearby Goodtown. The church still stands, but I don't believe there are services there anymore. It was being served out of the parish in Central City, Pa. The page has photos of the gravestones and id's a number of them. There are also various links to the State and local projects. Goodtown was settled by Rusyns (although some descendants identify themselves as "Austrian" because they immigrated from the Austro-Hungarian empire). There are a few houses left in the village, a coal-mining community in the early 1900s just outside Berlin, Pa.

Tombstone Project [usgwarchives.net]

P.S. I saw the icon screen in the church many years ago. The icons were done in "western sytle" and had large red, white, and blue light bulbs surrounding each icon. The wiring, at that time, was definitely from the early part of the 20th century.

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Welcome to the forum (or to posting at least)

I'm always gratified by projects like these - especially those involving cemeteries of closed churches.

If you're in contact with those working the project, you might want to bring to their attention that there's a more complete listing already on-line here [warholic.tripod.com], as well as an earlier one - attributed to them [files.usgwarchives.net] that also looks more complete in regard to its listings.

As far as SS Peter & Paul itself [oca.org], it is officially still functional as a mission parish of Holy Assumption in Central City, but apparently the Divine Liturgy is not served there on any regular basis.



"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."

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