Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark

Mount Pleasant Cemetery

Tomb of George Opdyke within the Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Details
Established 1844
Location 375 Broadway, Newark, New Jersey
Country United States
Size 40 acres (16 ha)
Find a Grave Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Architectural style Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Gothic, Other, Egyptian Revival
NRHP Reference # 87000836[1]
Added to NRHP October 28, 1988

Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a large Victorian-era cemetery in the North Ward of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is located on the west bank of the Passaic River in Newark's Broadway neighborhood, opposite Kearny. It occupies approximately 40 acres (162,000 m²) and is widely used as a park. The cemetery is listed on both the New Jersey Register (ID #1284, since 1987) and the National Register of Historic Places (Reference #87000836, since 1988).[2]

The graves of some of Newark's most eminent citizens are within Mount Pleasant Cemetery. The cemetery is dominated by the marble mausoleum of John Fairfield Dryden, the founder of Prudential Financial. Other notable interees include Marcus Lawrence Ward, Governor of New Jersey; Seth Boyden, inventor of patent leather; and Mary Stillman, first wife of Thomas Edison. Mount Pleasant also contains graves of members of the Kinney, Ballantine, and Frelinghuysen families.

The cemetery itself was opened and incorporated in 1844, but there are graves that date back to the mid-17th century, which were moved from older graveyards that were crowded out due to development.

Notable burials

See also

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places: Essex County, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Historic Preservation Office, last updated August 6, 2007. Accessed August 26, 2007.
  3. ↑ About Rutgers-Newark, accessed December 4, 2006
  4. ↑ Joseph P. Bradley at Find A Grave, accessed December 3, 2006
  5. ↑ Congressional biography of John Fairfield Dryden, accessed December 3, 2006
  6. ↑ Edward Winthrop Gray biography, United States Congress. Accessed July 28, 2007.
  7. ↑ George Armstrong Halsey, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 26, 2007.
  8. ↑ Augustus Albert Hardenbergh, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 13, 2007.
  9. ↑ Thomas Baldwin Peddie, Find A Grave. Accessed September 24, 2007.
  10. ↑ Alexander C.M. Pennington, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Coordinates: 40°45′50″N 74°09′50″W / 40.7639°N 74.1640°W / 40.7639; -74.1640

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