Cemetery’s most famous residents featured in Living History Tour

By Mon Valley Independent

By JEFF STITT

jstitt@yourmvi.com

With Halloween just around the corner, the staff and volunteers of the McKeesport Regional History and Heritage Center are calling on local residentss to help remember the spirits of late “legendary McKeesporters” who are buried at the McKeesport & Versailles Cemetery.

The fourth annual Living History Tour is a self-guided walking tour of the historic graveyard located at 1608 Fifth Ave. in McKeesport.

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