Established 1844 Size 40 acres (16 ha) Phone +1 973-483-0288 | Country United States Founded 1844 Added to NRHP 28 October 1988 | |
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Location 375 Broadway, Newark, New Jersey Find a Grave Mount Pleasant Cemetery Architectural style Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Gothic, Other, Egyptian Revival Address 375 Broadway, Newark, NJ 07104, USA Burials Franklin Murphy, Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen Similar Fairmount Cemetery & Cremat, Holy Cross Cemetery & Mausol, Evergreen Cemetery & Cremat, Rosedale Cemetery, Glendale Cemetery Association | ||
Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a large Victorian-era cemetery in the North Ward of Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is located on the west bank of the Passaic River in Newark's Broadway neighborhood, opposite Kearny. It occupies approximately 40 acres (162,000 m²) and is widely used as a park. The cemetery is listed on both the New Jersey Register (ID #1284, since 1987) and the National Register of Historic Places (Reference #87000836, since 1988).
The graves of some of Newark's most eminent citizens are within Mount Pleasant Cemetery. The cemetery is dominated by the marble mausoleum of John Fairfield Dryden, the founder of Prudential Financial. Other notable interees include Marcus Lawrence Ward, Governor of New Jersey; Seth Boyden, inventor of patent leather; and Mary Stillman, first wife of Thomas Edison. Mount Pleasant also contains graves of members of the Kinney, Ballantine, and Frelinghuysen families.
The cemetery itself was opened and incorporated in 1844, but there are graves that date back to the mid-17th century, which were moved from older graveyards that were crowded out due to development.