Established 18th century Size 1.6 acres (6,500 m) | Country United States | |
Location 684 River RoadEdgewater, New Jersey | ||
The Edgewater Cemetery (also known as Vreeland Cemetery) is a cemetery in the Bergen County, New Jersey community of Edgewater.
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Site
The 1.6-acre cemetery has its entrance on River Road nearby the near the Hudson River and the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway. It is nestled between private residences and buildings that were once part of Alcoa Edgewater Works, an Alcoa aluminum processing plant, at the foot of the Hudson Palisades.
Burials
The cemetery holds the graves of local heroes from the American Revolutionary War through Spanish–American War. Many members of the Vreeland family where buried there in the 18th and 19th centuries. Two slaves also are buried there, as is Go-Won-Go Mohawk, an Indian princess and actress who married a former Indian fighter and settled in Edgewater, where she died in 1924. The last burial in took place in 1982.