Weehawken Cemetery

Weehawken Cemetery

East side of the Cemetery near the gate
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Country USA
Location North Bergen, New Jersey

The Weehawken Cemetery, like neighboring Hoboken Cemetery,[1] is not located in its namesake town of Weehawken but rather on the western slope of the Hudson Palisades in North Bergen, New Jersey,[2] with its main entrance on Bergen Turnpike. At its east side the cemetery is overlooked by the Bergen Crest Mausoleum and the Garden State Crematory.[3] and nearby Flower Hill Cemetery.

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Notable burials

Unclaimed bodies found after the collapse of the first attempt at the construction of the Uptown Hudson Tubes in 1880, a project later abandoned until 1908, were buried at the cemetery.[5]

See also

List of cemeteries in Hudson County, New Jersey

References

  1. ^ Van Winkle, Daniel (1923). History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, 1630-1923. ISBN 0832850675. 
  2. ^ Hudson Cemeteries
  3. ^ Veit, Richard Francis; Mark Nonestied (2008). New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape. ISBN 0813542367. 
  4. ^ Albert Wadas Burial Site
  5. ^ "A Body found in the Tunnel", New York Times, October 9, 1880, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0A1FFD3E5B1B7A93CBA9178BD95F448884F9, retrieved 2011-03-04 

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