Colestown Cemetery, Cherry Hill Township

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Colestown Cemetery

Colestown Cemetery is in Cherry Hill Township in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, and is located at the intersection of Church Road and Kings Highway. The Gatehouse to the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1]

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The area now known as Cherry Hill was originally settled by the Lenni-Lenape Native Americans who coexisted peacefully with the first settlers from England, namely Quaker followers of William Penn who arrived in the late 17th century. [2] The first settlement was a small cluster of homes named Colestown, in the perimeters of what is now the Colestown Cemetery.

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References

  1. Israel, Nancy (March 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Gatehouse at Colestown Cemetery". National Park Service. With accompanying photo
  2. History of the Farmstead Archived 2015-10-09 at the Wayback Machine , Cherry Hill Township. Accessed September 4, 2015.
  3. Alexander Gilmore Cattell, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Accessed September 2, 2007.
  4. Andrew Kessler Hay, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Accessed August 25, 2007.
  5. "Alfred Hunt, the well known president of the Bethlehem Iron Company dead.", Bethlehem Globe-Times, March 28, 1888.
  6. Alfred Hunt's obituary
  7. Francis Ford Patterson, Jr., Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Accessed August 26, 2007.

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