Edgewater Cemetery

Edgewater Cemetery
Details
Established 18th century
Location 684 River Road
Edgewater, New Jersey
Country United States
Size 1.6 acres (6,500 m2)
Find a Grave Edgewater Cemetery

The Edgewater Cemetery (also known as Vreeland Cemetery) is a cemetery in the Bergen County, New Jersey community of Edgewater.[1]

Site

The 1.6-acre cemetery has its entrance on River Road nearby the near the Hudson River and the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway. It is nestled between private residences and buildings that were once part of Alcoa Edgewater Works, an Alcoa aluminum processing plant,[2][3] at the foot of the Hudson Palisades.

Burials

The cemetery holds the graves of local heroes from the American Revolutionary War through Spanish–American War. Many members of the Vreeland family where buried there in the 18th and 19th centuries.[4] Two slaves also are buried there, as is Go-Won-Go Mohawk, an Indian princess and actress who married a former Indian fighter and settled in Edgewater, where she died in 1924. The last burial in took place in 1982.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Edgewater Cemetery". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  2. 1 2 DePalma, Anthony (May 13, 1984). "If You're Thinking of Living In: Edgewater". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
  3. ↑ Cheslow, Jerry (July 30, 1995). "If You're Thinking of Living In: Edgewater; Factory Town Is Now Bedroom Community". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
  4. ↑ "Vreeland Burials". findagrave.com. Retrieved 2011-03-08.

Coordinates: 40°49′11″N 73°58′46″W / 40.819641°N 73.979453°W / 40.819641; -73.979453

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