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Weehawken Cemetery

Cemetery in New Jersey, U.S.

Summary

Cemetery in New Jersey, U.S.

Field	Value
name	Weehawken Cemetery
image	WeehawkenCemetery.JPG
caption	East side of the Cemetery near the gate
country	United States
location	Bergen Turnpike,
North Bergen, New Jersey

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

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.

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.

Albert Vadas (1877–1946)

References

Van Winkle, Daniel. (1923). "History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, 1630–1923". Higginson Book Company.
[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~murg/cemeteries.htm Hudson Cemeteries]
Veit, Richard Francis. (2008). "New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape". Rutgers University Press.
(December 30, 2018). "With gravestones toppled and trees down, N.J. Cemetery 'looks like a war zone'".
(October 9, 1880). "A Body found in the Tunnel". New York Times.

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