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The original cemetery was only a single acre off of Beverly's Monument Cemetery, purchased from a local resident in 1863 for the purpose of interring Union Army casualties who died in the Beverly United States Army hospital (run for the duration of the Civil War). Additional land was acquired in 1936, 1937, 1948, and 1951.
Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in New Jersey" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Fairview Cemetery (Westfield, New Jersey) French-Richards Cemetery (Springfield, New Jersey) (40.6827888144643, -74.31718794108211) Hillside Cemetery, Scotch Plains; Hollywood Memorial Park and Cemetery, Union; St. John's Episcopal Churchyard, Elizabeth; Gods Acre Cemetery, Scotch Plains Presbyterian Church, Scotch Plains; Rahway Cemetery
Der Stadt Friedhof, Fredericksburg – pioneer cemetery; Founders Memorial Cemetery, Houston – oldest cemetery in Houston; Jackson Ranch Church Cemetery and Eli Jackson Cemetery, Hidalgo County, Texas [7] Olivewood Cemetery, Houston – the city's earliest African-American cemetery, founded around 1870; Texas State Cemetery, Austin
The Greenwich Tea Party of December 22, 1774 is commemorated with the Greenwich Tea Burning Monument erected in 1908. The Old Friends Meeting House is a two-story brick building that was built in 1779 by the Quakers. The Richard Wood House is a two-story brick building constructed in 1795 by the merchant Richard Wood 3rd. [3]
The cemetery is believed to be the oldest in Monmouth County, apart from some individual sequestered family burial plots. Some of the tombstones were brought from Scotland in the ballast of crossing ships, [53] and were hand carved in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. The cemetery is known to contain many historically significant and famous people of ...
The Elm Ridge Cemetery Company was formed in 1868 by an act of the State of New Jersey authorizing the company to purchase an adjoining 5-acre (2.0 ha) tract, to improve and operate the cemetery, sell burial plots, and be exempt from taxation as long as the land was used as a cemetery. The act named the initial seven members of corporation that ...
Hagstrom Map (2008). Hudson County New Jersey Street Map. Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-88097-763-0. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. 7: 355. 1922. ISSN 0096-8935. OCLC 2563735. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= The New York genealogical and biographical record. 53. New York Genealogical and Biographical ...