Fairmount Cemetery
Fairmount Cemetery is a 150-acre rural cemetery in the West Ward of Newark, New Jersey, in the neighborhood of Fairmount. It opened in 1855, shortly after the Newark City Council banned burials in the central city due to fears that bodies spread yellow fever.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include West Side High School and St. Antoninus Church.
West Side High School
School
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West Side High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school complex in Newark, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as part of the Newark Public Schools. West Side High School is situated 1,600 feet south of Fairmount Cemetery.
St. Antoninus Church
Church
St. Antoninus Church is a Roman Catholic parish church located at 337 South Orange Avenue within the Archdiocese of Newark, in Newark, New Jersey. St. Antoninus Church is situated 2,400 feet southeast of Fairmount Cemetery.
St. Barnabas’ Episcopal Church
Church
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St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church, is located in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The building was built in 1864 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1972. St. Barnabas’ Episcopal Church is situated 3,200 feet northeast of Fairmount Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roseville and East Orange.
Roseville
Hamlet
Roseville is a neighborhood in the city of Newark in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It borders Bloomfield and East Orange. To the neighborhood's immediate east is the Newark City Subway and Branch Brook Park.
East Orange
Town
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East Orange is a city in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 69,612, an increase of 5,342 from the 2010 census count of 64,270, which in turn reflected a decline of 5,554 from the 69,824 counted in the 2000 census.
Teachers Village
Neighborhood
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Teachers Village is a neighborhood centered around Halsey Street in Newark, New Jersey. It is located in Downtown Newark in southwest quadrant of the Four Corners Historic District, south of Market Street in the Central Ward between the Prudential Center and Springfield/Belmont. Teachers Village is situated 1½ miles southeast of Fairmount Cemetery.
Fairmount Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Newark, New Jersey
- Category: burial
- Location: City of Newark, Essex County, Gateway, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.74634° or 40° 44′ 47″ northLongitude
-74.20281° or 74° 12′ 10″ westElevation
190 feet (58 metres)Open location code
87G7PQWW+GVOpenStreetMap ID
way 412090800OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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In Other Languages
From French to Urdu—“Fairmount Cemetery” goes by many names.
- French: “cimetière de Fairmount”
- French: “Cimetière de Fairmount”
- German: “Friedhof Fairmount”
- Italian: “cimitero di Fairmount”
- Japanese: “フェアマウント墓地”
- Spanish: “cementerio de Fairmount”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de Fairmount”
- Urdu: “فیئر ماؤنٹ قبرستان”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fairmount Cemetery”. Photo: Dinopup, CC BY-SA 3.0.