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Fairview Cemetery (Westfield, New Jersey) French-Richards Cemetery (Springfield, New Jersey) (40.6827888144643, -74.31718794108211) Hillside Cemetery, Scotch Plains
The creation of the cemetery arose from a 1965 need when at that time the only two federal veterans' cemeteries in the state were full. [3] The cemetery opened as New Jersey's first state-operated veterans' cemetery, serving as "a lasting memorial to those men and women who put their lives on the line to defend our country's honor and freedom."
Finn's Point National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Pennsville Township, Salem County, New Jersey, United States. It encompasses 4.6 acres (1.9 ha), and as of February 2009, had 3,033 interments.
Beverly National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Edgewater Park Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 64.6 acres (26.1 ha), and as 2021 had over 50,000 interments.
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 military cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [1] By the end of 1862, 12 national cemeteries had been established. [2]
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NJ Military and Veterans Affairs opens first Camden County office. Gannett. Jim Walsh, Cherry Hill Courier-Post. November 14, 2023 at 12:23 PM. CAMDEN – Veterans in the city and surrounding ...
Vito Trause (1925–2019), United States Army veteran, World War II prisoner of war, and well-known community figure in New Jersey. [3] Lamont Coleman (1974–1999), known professionally as Big L, American rapper and songwriter. Thomas Eboli, mobster and acting boss of the Genovese crime family.