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Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville; Atlantic County Veterans Cemetery, Estell Manor; Holy Cross Cemetery and Chapel Mausoleum, Mays Landing; Lincoln Memorial Park, Mays Landing; Laurel Memorial Park and Crematory, Pomona; Head Of The River Cemetery, 600 NJ Route-49, Estell Manor
There are some shared characteristics of cemeteries in North Bergen. In the Annual report of the National Board of Health in 1879 four cemeteries, historically Grove Church, Hoboken, Machpelah, and Weehawken, all lie on the western side of the Hudson Palisades which gives them similar soil deposits and somewhat uniquely, the presence of trap rock on the grounds. [3]
The Somerset Hills is in the northern section of Somerset County that was created on May 14, 1688, from portions of Middlesex County. [ 5 ] The term was coined in the early 1800s and references the 2nd Watchung Mountain which crosses Bedminster as well as the Bernardsville Mountain that is the highest mountain in the region.
The cemetery is laid out with panoramic views of the Schuylkill River and thousands of planted trees. The cemetery is an accredited arboretum with over 150 species of trees and is a member of American Public Gardens Association. [4] It contains monuments and mausoleums of varying architectural design including Egyptian, Gothic and Greek. [5]
The Somerset Center Cemetery is located in the center of the community along Waldron Road and U.S. Route 12. William H. L. McCourtie and his family mausoleum are located within Somerset Center Cemetery. The McCourtie Mausoleum, which was built in 1927, is listed as a Michigan State Historic Site.
Bedminster is a township in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 8,272, [8] [9] an increase of 107 (+1.3%) from the 2010 census count of 8,165, [18] [19] which in turn reflected a decline of 137 (−1.7%) from the 8,302 counted in the 2000 census. [20]
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The cemetery was designed by John Notman and grew to its current size through the purchase of four land parcels between 1836 and 1861. It contains over 11,000 family lots and more than 33,000 graves, including many adorned with grand marble and granite funerary monuments, elaborately sculpted hillside tombs and mausoleums. [4]