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PHOTO TOUR OF CEDAR GROVE CEMETERY
Gloucester, N.J.

Photos by Hoag Levins

Read Main Story: CHASING THE DEAD AT CEDAR GROVE

GLOUCESTER, N.J. (May 3, 2001) -- Opened in 1851, Cedar Grove Cemetery takes its name from the cedar woods that once grew throughout the area. Today, there is still a sense of bucolic tranquility about the grounds located on Market Street adjacent to Gloucester High School and Route 130. Little Timber Creek, a tributary of the Delaware River, runs nearby.

Cedar Grove's collection of funerary architecture stretches back in time to before the Civil War. In some places it feels like a formal Victorian garden. An iron gate on a nineteenth-century plot (above, left) features ornate musical icons.

Because Gloucester had a community of Lenni-Lenape Indians, Cedar Grove has a number of Indian graves. One (above, left) is that of Ada M. One Star. Some of its grand plots (above, right) hold the remains of several generations of local families.


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