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:
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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