Riverview Cemetery (Trenton, New Jersey)

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Riverview Cemetery
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Cemetery vista featuring the George B. McClellan monument
Riverview Cemetery (Trenton, New Jersey)
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Location
870 Centre Street, Trenton, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°11′42″N74°45′14″W / 40.195°N 74.754°W / 40.195; -74.754
TypePublic
Owned byCity of Trenton
No. of gravesup to 45,000 [1]
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ArchitectJohn K. Smith, landscape designer; Charles C. Haven, civil engineer; Calvert Vaux, landscape architect; Micklewright & Mountford, architects
Architectural styleArt Deco
NRHP reference No. 100000810 [2]
NJRHP No.3278 [3]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 27, 2017
Designated NJRHPFebruary 7, 2017

Riverview Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at 870 Centre Street in the city of Trenton, New Jersey in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. A number of notables are interred there, including Civil War Union Army Major General and New Jersey Governor George B. McClellan, whose grave is marked by the tallest monument in the cemetery. His wife, Mary Ellen Marcy McClellan, is interred with him.

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History

Riverview Cemetery dates back to a Quaker graveyard used in the 1670s overlooking the Delaware River. [4] The cemetery was established in 1699, and was incorporated in 1858 by an act passed by the New Jersey Legislature. [5] [6] It still serves the community today as an active cemetery, with an office and full-time staff. It was expanded and formally landscaped in the 19th century, becoming the burial site of many prominent Trentonians of the era. [7]

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 27, 2017, for its significance in landscape architecture. It includes one contributing building, two contributing sites, five contributing structures, and 38 contributing objects. [8]

Notable interments

Other notables interred in Riverview are:

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References

  1. "Riverview Cemetery". Historical Marker Project.
  2. "National Register Information System  (#100000810)". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  3. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Mercer County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. March 30, 2023. p. 16.
  4. Walker, Edwin Robert (1929). A History of Trenton, 1679–1929: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of a Notable. Riverview Cemetery, or rather a small portion of it included in the present grounds, was originally a burying plot belonging to the ...
  5. Sarapin, Janice Kohl (2002). Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. ISBN   0813521114.
  6. "Riverview Cemetery" . Retrieved 2007-08-26.
  7. "New Jersey: The Early Years – 2004 Annual Conference". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection . Retrieved 2007-08-26.
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  13. Spencer, Thomas E. (1998). Where they're buried : a directory containing more than twenty thousand names of notable persons buried in American cemeteries, with listings of many prominent people who were cremated . Clearfield Co. p.  361. ISBN   978-0806348230.