LANCASTER, PA – Join LancasterHistory at Woodward Hill Cemetery for the Annual Wreath Laying Ceremony for President James Buchanan, the United States’ 15th President. Taking place two days after Buchanan’s birthday, the ceremony features the laying of fresh flowers at the gravesite of the former president and remarks by the presiding officer of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, as well as local dignitaries

Distinguished guests at the ceremony include:

• 1LT Morgan Conner, Master of Ceremony
• Reverend Dr. Joel Petruschke, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, offering invocation and benediction
• Jean Weglarz, Woodward Hill Ceremony
• John Phillips, Senior Warden, Lodge 43
• Stephanie Celiberti, Manager of President James Buchanan’s Wheatland
• Brigadier General Frank J. McGovern, the ceremony's keynote speaker 

Additional Participants:

• The Red Rose Veterans Honor Guard, with Skip Walls as bugler
• Lancaster Fencibles with 21-gun salute
• Scout Troop 58
• CSM Albert Singleton, NCO in Charge
• 328th Light Support Battalion, Color Guard
• 56th Mobile Brigade Combat Team
• PA Army National Guard

 This event is free and open to the public. No reservations are required. For directions to Woodward Cemetery, visit the Cemetery's website.

About LancasterHistory
LancasterHistory is a community-based, not-for-profit organization established to educate the public on the history of Lancaster County and its place in the history of Pennsylvania and the United States, to advance the missions of regional historical organizations, and to promote the acquisition, preservation, and interpretation of resources representing the history of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania within the broader context of state and national history, including the homes of 15th US President James Buchanan and Congressman Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith.

About Woodward Hill Cemetery

For more than 150 years, Woodward Hill Cemetery has been one of Lancaster’s most significant historic sites. As the final resting place of numerous prominent citizens including President James Buchanan, with a layout reflecting Victorian ideals of landscape design and containing fine examples of funerary monuments, Woodward Hill’s national significance was recognized in 2005 when the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Woodward Hill was the largest and most elaborate of the new rural cemeteries established in Lancaster during the mid-nineteenth century.

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