Berlin Cemetery - Berlin, NJ
N 39° 48.024 W 074° 56.457
18S E 505055 N 4405605
This cemetery dates back to 1766 and has thousands of interments, approximately 3,500 burials.
Waymark Code: WMADT8
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2011
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This is a huge cemetery. Parking is everywhere from every approach. There is a lot of history here and the local historical society has helped to maintain this important site. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I am going to use the towns historical narrative to describe this place.
The Historic Berlin Cemetery was founded in 1766--ten years before the American Revolutionary War and twenty-three years before General George Washington became the first President of the United States. It is the final resting place of Lenape Indians and Hessian soldiers. It is the final home to a man who received the Congressional Medal of Honor and to a man who was our country's first Eagle Scout.
The first Presbyterian meeting house in Long-a-Coming was a log building on the site of the present Berlin Cemetery Chapel. It was constructed in the fall of 1762 on land that had been a King's grant (George III of England) to Samuel Scull of Long-a-Coming. Reverend John Brainerd, a trustee of Princeton College, and missionary living in the Indian village of Brotherton in Burlington County, took up subscriptions in the area in 1762 to raise the funds for its construction.
On September 18, 1766, Samuel Scull conveyed three acres to Michael Fisher, David Roe, Peter Cheeseman, Northrop Marple, and Henry Thome, as trustees of a Presbyterian Church for the sum of five shillings, to be set aside for a graveyard. It is believed that some burials had been made there prior to the land transfer.
For the next 100 years, little was done to maintain the cemetery. Then, in 1884, the Berlin Cemetery Association was formed. The association is still in existence and continues to operate the cemetery.
The cemetery's new mausoleum (pictured on the left) was dedicated on September 30, 2001. There is also a small Chapel in the building for services.
For more information on the Historic Berlin Cemetery, contract the office at 856-767-0206. The office is located at 40 Clementon Road in Berlin, NJ 08009. SOURCE
The coordinates are for the historic structure located at the corner of Egg Harbor & Clementon Roads. The structure is a former school and church dating back to 1766
The historical society site can be found HERE.