[5] The cemeteries included Lebanon Cemetery (condemned in 1899 – closed in 1903),[6] the Olive Graveyard (closed in 1923),[7] the Stephen Smith Home for the Aged and Infirm Colored Person's Burial Ground and the First African Baptist Church Burial Grounds.

Fifty-three acres of land previously part of Bartram Farms were selected for the creation of the cemetery.

[10] The headline of the Chester County Times the next day read "Collingdale Has More Race Troubles, Town Council Has No Use for a Colored Cemetery, No African Need Apply.

"[5] On May 30, 1919, a memorial was erected to commemorate the African American soldiers from Pennsylvania who fought and died in France during World War I from 1917 to 1918.

[13] In January 2024, the skulls of 19 unidentified African American Philadelphians were interred in two mausolea in Eden Cemetery.