Weehawken Cemetery
East side of the Cemetery near the gate | |
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Location | North Bergen, New Jersey |
Country | USA |
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.
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.[4]
Notable burials
- Albert Vadas (1877–1946)[5]
See also
List of cemeteries in Hudson County, New Jersey
References
- ↑ Van Winkle, Daniel (1923). History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, 1630-1923. ISBN 0-8328-5067-5.
- ↑ Hudson Cemeteries
- ↑ Veit, Richard Francis; Mark Nonestied (2008). New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape. ISBN 0-8135-4236-7.
- ↑ "A Body found in the Tunnel", New York Times, October 9, 1880, retrieved 2011-03-04
- ↑ Albert Wadas Burial Site
External links
- Burial records of Weehawken Cemetery
- Findagrave: Burials in North Bergen, New Jersey
- Civil War gravestones in Hudson County
Coordinates: 40°46′46″N 74°01′49″W / 40.7795°N 74.0302°W
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