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.
| Weehawken Cemetery | |
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 East side of the Cemetery near the gate | |
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In December 2018 owner of the cemetery were ordered to halt work with felling trees when it was established that erosion could cause damage to existing graves on the hillside.[4]
Notable burials
editUnclaimed 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]
- Albert Vadas (1877–1946)[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Van Winkle, Daniel (1923). History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, 1630–1923. Higginson Book Company. ISBN 0832850675.
- ^ Hudson Cemeteries
- ^ Veit, Richard Francis; Mark Nonestied (2008). New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813542362.
- ^ "With gravestones toppled and trees down, N.J. Cemetery 'looks like a war zone'". 30 December 2018.
- ^ "A Body found in the Tunnel" (PDF), New York Times, October 9, 1880, retrieved 2011-03-04
- ^ Albert Wadas Burial Site