This fine polished-granite mausoleum announces his name to anyone who visits this sheltered corner of the cemetery; but D. L. Clark’s real monument is the Clark Bar, which trumpets his name to anyone who visits a convenience-store cash register. Polished granite was expensive, but a very good choice for Pittsburgh, since the grime of industry could be wiped off with little labor and no damage to the stone.
A small rustic stump with a scroll and a tiny lamb for two young children who died within days of each other, probably of the same disease.
If this mausoleum looks a bit like a miniature courthouse, then Mr. Burleigh should feel right at home: he earned his greatest fame, or infamy, as the Allegheny County district attorney who prosecuted the Homestead strikers in 1892. He was later Pittsburgh city solicitor for many years. You may ask how a man who devoted his life to public service gained the kind of wealth evident in this splendid Ionic temple; but if you do ask it, it is because you are not very familiar with Pittsburgh.
This marble monument has eroded badly, and old Pa Pitt was not able to read any of the original inscriptions (more were added later) except the unusual and very fine script “Dunlap.” A marble statue has lost its head and most of its other characteristics, and the inscriptions on the open book have been utterly obliterated. Nevertheless, the form of the monument is still striking and artistic. If Father Pitt had to hazard a guess, he would date it to the 1860s.
A view from Division 1 of the Union Dale Cemetery. Of the great cemeteries in the city, only the Union Dale Cemetery is divided into sections by major thoroughfares running through it.
