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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]
Skillman-Beekman Cemetery (see Beekman Cemetery, above) Smalley Farm Burial Ground (see Symen Van Wickle Cemetery, below) Somerset Hills Memorial Park, Basking Ridge; Somerville Cemetery, Somerville; Somerville New Cemetery, Somerville; Somerville Old Cemetery, Somerville; South Branch Reformed Church Cemetery, South Branch
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.
In 1992, the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [11] In 1994, West Laurel Hill purchased Bringhurst Funeral Home and a new funeral home was built on the property in 1997. The on-cemetery funeral home was renamed West Laurel Hill Funeral Home in 2016 and to Laurel Hill Funeral Home in 2022. [12]
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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Laurel Hill Cemetery, also called Laurel Hill East to distinguish it from the affiliated West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, is a historic rural cemetery in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major rural cemetery in the United States after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
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.