Old Tappan Cemetery Washington Avenue North Old Tappan, NJ 07675

Old Tappan Cemetery Washington Avenue North Old Tappan, NJ 07675

Old Tappan Cemetery

Washington Avenue North

Old Tappan, NJ 07675

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1427593/old-tappan-cemetery

https://genealogy.fredquest.com/cemeteries/nj-oldtappan-eckersonfarm/index.html

https://ldsgenealogy.com/NJ/Old-Tappan.htm

Open: Sunday-Saturday: From Dawn to Dusk

My review on TripAdvisor:

The Old Tappan Cemetery is still an active cemetery even though its location in the woods surrounded by McMansions.

My International Marketing class at Bergen Community College recently did a complete study and marketing plan for the “Bergen250” on the Revolutionary War veterans buried at graveyards and cemeteries all over Bergen County, NJ:

The project:

Day Three Hundred and Eighty: Three Bergecco-Parc Consulting presents “Bergen 250: Exploring Bergen County’s Revolutionary War Era Cemeteries and Graveyards” April 29th, 2026

For a Mapping of all the historic graveyards and cemeteries, I had the students visit all the sites that the Daughters of the American Revolution had researched and I had the students find all the locations, photo the tombstones and create a bio on each of the veterans. I enclosed a copy of their work above.

My blog on the historic graveyards and cemeteries of Bergen County:

https://visitingamuseum.com/tag/historic-cemeteries-of-bergen-county

The oldest part of the cemetery sits on the highest bluff overlooking the woods and the street. The Eckerson family burial plot is located here with graves dating back to before Revolutionary War.

The Old Tappan Cemetery sits on a hill in the woods

The oldest part of the cemetery sits on the very top of the hill overlooking the neighborhood

The site houses the graves of the Eckerson and Haring families

The Eckerson family graves

The Wortendyke branch of the family

The graves of Revolutionary War veteran Cornelius Eckerson and his wife, Elizabeth Haring. It looks like someone stole Cornelius’s headstone.

The Eckerson Haring Wortendyke family plots

Within the confines of the property, there were even modern graves of the Eckerson family dating back to about twenty years ago. The Eckerson family is still buried here in the Twenty-First century.

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