{"id":146164,"date":"2026-03-23T18:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T18:15:08","slug":"city-council-approves-historic-designation-for-erie-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146164\/","title":{"rendered":"City council approves historic designation for Erie Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following Wednesday night\u2019s council meeting, the Erie Cemetery now officially has a historic designation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Erie City Council voted unanimously to approve an ordinance to designate the Erie Cemetery as a historic site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/since-1850-city-of-erie-designates-erie-cemetery-as-historic-site\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Since 1850 \u2013 City of Erie designates Erie Cemetery as historic site;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Since 1850 \u2013 City of Erie designates Erie Cemetery as historic site&quot;}\"> Since 1850 \u2013 City of Erie designates Erie Cemetery as historic site <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Supporters of the new designation will allow it more access to state grants and local programs to help them preserve the site.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Erie Cemetery is the final resting place for many notable figures in Erie history, including Daniel Dobbins and General Strong Vincent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Wednesday night\u2019s council meeting, the Erie Cemetery now officially has a historic designation. The Erie City Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[30818,66644,66645,136,19371,5241,138,137,66643],"class_list":["post-146164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-council-meeting","tag-daniel-dobbins","tag-designation","tag-erie","tag-erie-cemetery","tag-erie-city-council","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-historic-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}