Upper Burial Ground

The Upper Burial Ground is a cemetery in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Also buried here is Zachariah Poulson, who died in 1844 after having published The American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia's principal daily newspaper for many years.

Originally buried in Axe's Burial Ground in 1735, his remains were carefully removed in 1894 along with his field stone to the God's Acre in the rear of the Brethren church, where they now repose beside those of his son, Alexander, and family.

One of the earliest stones is Cornelius Tyson who arrived in Germantown in 1684 and died in 1716 at age 63.

The Upper Burial Ground is a contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Marker on the presumed site of the mass grave of 58 American soldiers killed in the Battle of Germantown