Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery

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Bayview Cemetery, previously called Greenville Cemetery, is located in Jersey City, New Jersey. It merged with New York Bay Cemetery and is now known as Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery.

History

The cemetery was built in 1848. It is located in the Greenville Section near Danforth Avenue Station. A former turnpike, the Bergen Point Plank Road, now Garfield Avenue, runs through the cemetery. The cemetery contains a memorial and plots of several employees of the Cunard Shipping Line. Ziegler served as president of the Cemetery, from 1935 to 1957. The cemetery contains a section which is an early Jewish burial ground, unique to Hudson County.

Notable burials

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