Riverview Cemetery, Trenton

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Riverview Cemetery is a cemetery located in Trenton, New Jersey on 870 Centre Street. It was founded in 1858, being incorporated in that year by an act passed by the New Jersey Legislature. [1] [2]

Riverview Cemetery dates back to a Quaker cemetery built in the 1670s overlooking the Delaware River. [3] It still serves the community today as an active cemetery, with an office and full time staff. It was expanded and formally landscaped in the 19th century, becoming the burial site of many prominent Trentonians of the era. [4]

The cemetery contains a number of notable people interred there, the most famous being American Civil War Union Army Major General and New Jersey Governor George B. McClellan, whose grave is marked by the tallest monument in the cemetery. His wife, Mary Ellen Marcy McClellan, is interred with him.

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Other notables interred in Riverview are:

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  1. ^ Sarapin, Janice Kohl (2002). Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813521114. 
  2. ^ Riverview Cemetery. Retrieved on 2007-08-26. “Riverview Cemetery is perched above the Delaware River off Lamberton and Lalor Streets in Trenton, New Jersey. Originally established in 1699, it is a designated historical landmark. Incorporated in 1858, it continues to be an active cemetery with lots still available for purchase. Riverview was a popular final resting place for residents of Trenton and its surrounding suburbs, including Bucks County, just across the Delaware River.”
  3. ^ Walker, Edwin Robert (1929). A History of Trenton, 1679-1929: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of a Notable. “Riverview Cemetery, or rather a small portion of it included in the present grounds, was originally a burying plat belonging to the ...” 
  4. ^ New Jersey: The Early Years - 2004 Annual Conference. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Retrieved on 2007-08-26. “Riverview Cemetery has its origins in a Quaker cemetery laid on the bluff above the Delaware in the late 1670's. Long before that, it was a prime settlement location for Native Americans. In the 19th century it was landscaped and greatly expanded and now contains the memorials of many prominent Trentonians and of George McClellan, Civil War general and Governor of New Jersey. The exciting and innovative historical interpretive program at the adjacent Route 29 Deck Park takes visitors through the history of Trenton using a variety of media.”
  5. ^ John Taylor Bird, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 27, 2007.
  6. ^ John Hart Brewer, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 17, 2007.
  7. ^ a b James, George. "IN PERSON; He's Looked at Life From Both Sides Now", The New York Times, February 20, 2000. Accessed December 29, 2007.

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