Old Forgotten Cemeteries Of New Jersey

Author : James O'Donohue
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519361521

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It has been almost two years since Part One of this series has been put together. I really enjoy visiting the old cemeteries in my spare time and learning from the people I meet. There are eleven more amazing graveyards to see in this volume, with most being located near a place of worship, like The Montville Reformed Church Cemetery which is still in use today, and some of them being tucked away in wooded areas far from site, like the "Early Newfoundland Cemetery," also known as the "Cuff Burying Ground," which is located next to the banks of the Pequannock River at the northern border of Morris County. The cemeteries and burial grounds we visit have been around since the 1700's and 1800's when the state was full of farmland and woods. Land owners would use a spot on their farm to bury their family members, others may have been buried near a church that was functioning at the time, but may no longer be in use today. The old farmland is disappearing, giving way to new homes and roads. So what happens to the cemeteries or family burial grounds? Some of them are in plain site on the side of the road, while others are off the beaten path hidden from view. The visible ones are usually fairly well maintained by a church, or a person who volunteers their own time to look after them, but the hidden ones are not as lucky. Many of them have simply been forgotten, lost in time, they are overgrown with brush, poison ivy and trees. Most of the tombstone names and writings have eroded away with time and have been damaged by falling tree limbs, wind, or vandalism over the years. These sacred places are in danger of being lost forever, some are already gone. Some heavily overgrown areas may be better visited in the colder months, but either way, dress appropriately with long pants and hiking boots, you don't want to encounter poison ivy, or ticks wearing shorts and flip-flops. Bring along some bug spray (deep woods off) and sunscreen when traveling off the beaten path in the warmer months. Be safe, and happy cemetery hopping!

Author : James O'Donohue
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1481265245

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Old and Forgotten Cemeteries of New Jersey by James O'Donohue Pdf

It has been almost two years since Part One of this series has been put together.There are eleven more amazing graveyards to see in this volume, with most being located near a place of worship, like The Montville Reformed Church Cemetery which is still in use today, and some of them being tucked away in wooded areas far from site, like the “Early Newfoundland Cemetery”, also known as the “Cuff Burial Ground”, which is located next to the banks of the Pequannock River at the northern border of Morris County.The cemeteries and burial grounds we visit have been around since the 1700's and 1800's when the state was full of farmland and woods. The old farmland is disappearing, giving way to new homes and roads. So what happens to the cemeteries or family burial grounds? Many of them have simply been forgotten, lost in time. These sacred places are in danger of being lost forever, some are already gone.

Author : James O'Donohue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 130058081X

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Old and Forgotten Cemeteries of New Jersey Morris County by James O'Donohue Pdf

There are so many cemeteries and family burial grounds all over New Jersey, many of them have been around since the 1700's and 1800's when the state was full of farmland and woods. Land owners would use a spot on their farm to bury their family members, others may have been buried by a church that was functioning at the time, but may now be long gone. So what happens to the cemeteries or family burial grounds? Some of them are in plain site on the side of the road, while others are off the beaten path hidden from view. The visible ones are usually fairly well maintained by a church or a person who volunteers their own time to look after them, but the hidden ones are not as lucky. Many of them have simply been forgotten, lost in time. They are overgrown with brush, poison ivy and trees. Most of the tombstone names and writings have eroded away with time and have been damaged by falling tree limbs, wind, or vandalism over the years. These sacred places are in danger of being lost forever, some are already gone.

Author : James O'donohue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517518997

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Old & Forgotten Cemeteries of New Jersey by James O'donohue Pdf

There are so many cemeteries and family burial grounds all over New Jersey, many of them have been around since the 1700's and 1800's when the state was full of farmland and woods. Land owners would use a spot on their farm to bury their family members, others may have been buried by a church that was functioning at the time, but may now be long gone. The farmland is also disappearing rapidly, giving way to new homes and roads. So what happens to the cemeteries or family burial grounds? Some of them are in plain site on the side of the road, while others are off the beaten path hidden from view. The visible ones are usually fairly well maintained by a church or a person who volunteers their own time to look after them, but the hidden ones are not as lucky. Many of them have simply been forgotten, lost in time. They are overgrown with brush, poison ivy and trees. Most of the tombstone names and writings have eroded away with time and have been damaged by falling tree limbs, wind, or vandalism over the years. These sacred places are in danger of being lost forever, some are already gone. The hustle and bustle of modern life goes on around them, yet most people don't know they exist, like "The Little Lost Cemetery" which is situated next to an on ramp to Interstate 287. Left over from an old orphanage and almost destroyed by the construction of the Interstate, until an organization took a stand to save it, and St Patricks' Cemetery that sits in an area that appears to be, "in the middle of nowhere", on top of a mountain in the woods of Rockaway. Some of the cemeteries listed require a bit of hiking, while others are very easy to get to. There are also veterans from different branches of the armed forces and different wars, such as World War 1 and the Revolutionary War. Multiple references were used to locate the cemeteries listed and I have personally visited each one in this book. I did not visit or document every cemetery in every town, I tried to focus on the older ones (1700 & 1800's) and the ones less obvious or visible.When visiting any cemetery remember to seek permission from any land owner where the cemetery resides on private property like The Luker Cemetery which is located in the backyard of a farm in Boonton, or the VanDuyne family burial ground in Towaco, which is on a small hill behind a house. Some heavily overgrown areas may be better visited in the colder months, but either way, dress appropriately. Be safe, and happy cemetery hopping!

Author : James O'Donohue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 1517518997

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Old and Forgotten Cemeteries of New Jersey by James O'Donohue Pdf

There are so many cemeteries and family burial grounds all over New Jersey, many of them have been around since the 1700's and 1800's when the state was full of farmland and woods. Land owners would use a spot on their farm to bury their family members, others may have been buried by a church that was functioning at the time, but may now be long gone. So what happens to the cemeteries or family burial grounds? Some of them are in plain site on the side of the road, while others are off the beaten path hidden from view. The visible ones are usually fairly well maintained by a church or a person who volunteers their own time to look after them, but the hidden ones are not as lucky. Many of them have simply been forgotten, lost in time. They are overgrown with brush, poison ivy and trees. Most of the tombstone names and writings have eroded away with time and have been damaged by falling tree limbs, wind, or vandalism over the years. These sacred places are in danger of being lost forever, some are already gone.

Author : James O'Donohue
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 1532780915

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Old and Forgotten Cemeteries of New Jersey by James O'Donohue Pdf

There are so many cemeteries and family burial grounds all over New Jersey, many of them have been around since the 1700's and 1800's when the state was full of farmland and woods. Land owners would use a spot on their farm to bury their family members, others may have been buried by a church that was functioning at the time, but may now be long gone. The farmland is also disappearing rapidly, giving way to new homes and roads. So what happens to the cemeteries or family burial grounds? Some of them are in plain site on the side of the road, while others are off the beaten path hidden from view. The visible ones are usually fairly well maintained by a church or a person who volunteers their own time to look after them, but the hidden ones are not as lucky. Many of them have simply been forgotten, lost in time. They are overgrown with brush, poison ivy and trees. Most of the tombstone names and writings have eroded away with time and have been damaged by falling tree limbs, wind, or vandalism over the years. These sacred places are in danger of being lost forever, some are already gone.

Author : James O'Donohue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 148126527X

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Old and Forgotten Cemeteries of New Jersey by James O'Donohue Pdf

There are so many cemeteries and family burial grounds all over New Jersey, many of them have been around since the 1700's and 1800's when the state was full of farmland and woods. Land owners would use a spot on their farm to bury their family members, others may have been buried by a church that was functioning at the time, but may now be long gone. So what happens to the cemeteries or family burial grounds? Some of them are in plain site on the side of the road, while others are off the beaten path hidden from view. The visible ones are usually fairly well maintained by a church or a person who volunteers their own time to look after them, but the hidden ones are not as lucky. Many of them have simply been forgotten, lost in time. They are overgrown with brush, poison ivy and trees. Most of the tombstone names and writings have eroded away with time and have been damaged by falling tree limbs, wind, or vandalism over the years. These sacred places are in danger of being lost forever, some are already gone.

Author : Richard F. Veit,Mark Nonestied
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813542362

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New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones by Richard F. Veit,Mark Nonestied Pdf

New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones presents a culturally diverse account of New Jersey's historic burial places from High Point to Cape May and from the banks of the Delaware to the ocean-washed Shore, to explain what cemeteries tell us about people and the communities in which they lived.

Author : Janice Kohl Sarapin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0813521114

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Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey by Janice Kohl Sarapin Pdf

This illustrated guidebook to New Jersey's old burial grounds is unique, not just for New Jersey, but for anywhere in America. Janice Kohl Sarapin introduces you to the history and lore of old graveyards. She shows you how to read epitaphs, how to date gravestones by style, how to restore an abandoned graveyard, and how to find out the stories of the people buried there. She describes more than 120 fascinating old burial grounds throughout the state (including the cemeteries of African-Americans, Jewish communities, and other ethnic and religious groups). She provides full directions and details about what makes each one special as well as suggestions for planning your visit and for educational activities to use with children and adults.

Author : Henry Charlton Beck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : 0813504325

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More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey by Henry Charlton Beck Pdf

From Colonial days to the early 1900s, iron forges, glass plants, lumber and paper mills flourished in the New Jersey of the Pine Barrens, in old Burlington, Gloucester and Salem Counties. Around the inlets of the Atlantic shore and on Delaware Bay, whaling and shipbuilding were important industries. Times have changed. Many of the old towns have fallen into ruin or disappeared, swallowed up in the abandoned lands of South Jersey or swept away by the unrelenting tides of the Jersey coast. Henry Charlton Black, raised in Haddonfield for years, shared his endless delight in the land and the lore of South Jersey. He, like a few other devoted Jerseyans, began to hunt out in the 1930s the old sites and to record the stories handed down from generation to generation, clear back to early settlers. In this sequel to Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey, his visits to the state's early heritage - churches, villages, and roads - are continued. He explores the routes of old railroads and the tangled wilderness of the Forked River Mountains, and he tells the lost stories of forgotten glass and iron and shipbuilding villages.

Author : Henry Charlton Beck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0813510163

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Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey by Henry Charlton Beck Pdf

Composed, for the most part, from sketches that were published in the Courier-Post newspapers of Camden, New Jersey, Beck provides us with a series of stories of towns too tiny or uncertain for today's maps. Together, these sketches help to create a more complete picture of the history of New Jersey. A connecting skein of untold or little known wartime history--the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the conflict of North against South--runs through most of the sketches. Many of the sketches concern the pine towns and their people, "the pineys" who lived in the Jersey pine barrens.

Author : William Ogden Wheeler,Edmund Drake Halsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : CORNELL:31924028828832

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Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in the Burying Grounds of the First Presbyterian Church and St. Johns Church at Elizabeth, New Jersey by William Ogden Wheeler,Edmund Drake Halsey Pdf

Author : Brian Armstrong
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467143585

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Franklin Park Tragedy, The: A Forgotten Story of Racial Injustice in New Jersey by Brian Armstrong Pdf

On March 1, 1894, two African American men broke into a home in rural Franklin Park and murdered a white woman and her daughter before her husband fought and killed the attackers. The newspapers called it the "Franklin Park Tragedy," and the story captivated public attention nationally and abroad. Another tragedy came afterward, with the racist forced expulsion of many local African American residents. Author Brian Armstrong tells the shocking story of this "sundown town" and how it evolved into the diverse community that exists today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9781563112560

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USS New Jersey by Anonim Pdf

(From the introduction) The ensuing chapters will trace the history of one battleship, the USS New Jersey, BB62, in its participation in four wars and duty between wars. The New Jersey story, 1940-91, epitomizes the saga of the American battleship, that versatile, durable dreadnought whose regal bearing made her in any company and any circumstances the Queen of the Sea.

Author : Joel Alpert
Publisher : Jewishgen.Incorporated
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0974126209

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The Memorial Book for the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithuania by Joel Alpert Pdf

This is the English translation of the Memorial or Yizkor Book of the Jewish Community of Yurburg, Lithuania, originally published in 1991 in Hebrew and Yiddish. It also has an additional new 150-page appendix containing new material collected since the publication of the original book. Contains many new photographs to enhance the original book.