Spring Bike Ride to Historic Dravo Cemetery

The Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania is inviting the HBS Club of Pittsburgh to an early Saturday afternoon bike ride on April 15 to historic Dravo Cemetery on the Great American Passage trail southwest of Pittsburgh on the banks of the Youghiogheny River. The ride will start at the trailhead in Boston (PA!) which is about 15 miles southwest from Pittsburgh and the ride itself is six miles (one way). The Cemetery is not directly accessible by car.  Dravo Cemetery was started in early nineteenth century and sat behind the Dravo Methodist Church. The church, a two-story frame building that accommodated 200 people, served small farming and mining villages on both sides of the river. The church burned down twice because of sparks from passing trains. When it burned the second time in 1920, it was not rebuilt. There are 708 grave sites on this half-acre cemetery, but only 81…