Jenn sent me a link to a marvelous site that provides plenty of ideas for morbid trips in the future!
Weird New Jersey
Reply
Category Archives: New Jersey
Alexander Hamilton Death Rock
Alexander Hamilton Death Rock (Weehawken, New Jersey)
From Roadside America: “Near a picturesque cliff along the Hudson River, overlooking the island of Manhattan, Aaron Burr did battle with Alexander Hamilton. The date was July 12, 1804. The actual rock ‘on which rested the head of Alexander Hamilton’ after he was mortally wounded is the base of the monument. Turned out that while Hamilton was (as noted on the stone) a ‘Patriot, Soldier, Statesman, and Jurist,’ Burr was a guy from Newark with more pistol practice. Perched atop the Rock of Death is, appropriately, a bronze head of Alexander Hamilton.”
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Newark, New Jersey)
From Wikipedia: “Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a large Victorian-era cemetery in Newark’s North Ward. The cemetery houses the graves of some of Newark’s most eminent citizens. The cemetery is dominated by the marble mausoleum of John Fairfield Dryden, the founder of Prudential Financial. Other notable interees include Marcus 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-1600s, which were moved from older graveyards that were crowded out due to development.” Suggested by Kathleen.