Evergreen Cemetery (Hillside, New Jersey)

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Evergreen Cemetery
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Location Elizabeth, Hillside
and Newark, New Jersey, United States
Coordinates 40°41′32″N74°12′39″W / 40.69222°N 74.21083°W / 40.69222; -74.21083
Area115 acres (47 hectares)
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleMid-19th-century revival, late-19th- and 20th-century revivals, late Victorian
NRHP reference No. 91000882 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 9, 1991(33 years ago) (1991-07-09)

Evergreen Cemetery and Crematory is a cemetery and crematorium located at 1137 North Broad Street, Hillside, Union County, New Jersey. Parts of it are in Hillside, Elizabeth, and Newark. [2]

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The cemetery is listed on both the New Jersey Register [3] and the National Register of Historic Places, [4] since 1991. [5]

Notable graves include authors Stephen Crane, Mary Mapes Dodge and Edward Stratemeyer. Six former U.S. Congressmen (including one who became Senator) and one non-voting delegate (from Alaska) are buried there as well.

The cemetery also is known for having a section of plots devoted to Romani "gypsy" families. [6] [7] [8]

It is adjacent to Weequahic Golf Course.

King of the Gypsies was filmed there with Shelley Winters. [9]

Notable interments

See also

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  2. ↑ See USGS Topo for county lines.[ full citation needed ]
  3. ↑ ID #2681.[ full citation needed ]
  4. ↑ Reference #91000882.[ full citation needed ]
  5. ↑ New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places: Union County Archived April 7, 2009, at the Wayback Machine . New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. Historic Preservation Office, last updated August 6, 2007. Retrieved August 26, 2007.
  6. ↑ "Kings? Queens? Palm readers? Meet the City's Hidden Gypsies". Charles Cummings.
  7. ↑ Anndee Hochman (August 18, 1984). "Friends Mourn Falls Church Gypsy Known as Musician, Peacemaker". The Washington Post . Washington, D.C. ISSN   0190-8286. OCLC   1330888409.
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  9. ↑ "Glimpse of History: When Hollywood came to Hillside". www.nj.com. May 2015.
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  11. ↑ William Chetwood, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress . Retrieved August 13, 2007.
  12. ↑ Amos Clark, Jr., Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved August 13, 2007.
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