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Paramus Plains Cemetery

Also known as Paramus Plains Secceeder Cemetery

Ridgewood, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA

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  • Get directions 1 South Pleasant Avenue
    Ridgewood, New Jersey 07450 United States
    Coordinates: 40.97425, -74.09918
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This cemetery was closed 1949. Paramus Plains Cemetery was established in conjunction with the True Reformed Church, which subsequently was succeeded by Kenilworth Presbyterian Church (burned down 1918) and changed it's name to the First Presbyterian Church. The church moved two blocks West on East Ridgewood Ave. Paramus Plains Cemetery (AKA Paramus Plains Secceeder) it is said to have been in disrepair and an eyesore, when the Ridgewood, New Jersey Board of Education acquired the property from the First Presbyterian church and through court proceedings. Some of the families owning lots in Paramus Plains moved the remains of loved ones to Valleau Cemetery about a mile away, but most were reinterred in George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus, NJ. There is a block of about 125 graves that contain the remains of 550 individuals. a single flat bronze marker (two feet by Three feet) is the only marker among those graves, this marker explains the reinterrment and directs interested parties to visit the Ridgewood, NJ Village Clerk for specific information. (The Village of Ridgewood and Board of Education have little info.) No individual markers were installed at the new burial site. George Washington is well maintained. the Cemetery claims to have few detailed records, and can not identify specific burial locations within the mass grave, although in years past this specific information has been provided by the cemetery. The Ridgewood, NJ Main Library also has records of known burials (about 550)in the local history collection. The site of the former cemetery was "L" shaped surrounding the church, built on the corner (E. Ridgewood & S. Pleasant). The cemetery had frontage on East Ridgewood Ave. and South Pleasant Ave.
This cemetery was closed 1949. Paramus Plains Cemetery was established in conjunction with the True Reformed Church, which subsequently was succeeded by Kenilworth Presbyterian Church (burned down 1918) and changed it's name to the First Presbyterian Church. The church moved two blocks West on East Ridgewood Ave. Paramus Plains Cemetery (AKA Paramus Plains Secceeder) it is said to have been in disrepair and an eyesore, when the Ridgewood, New Jersey Board of Education acquired the property from the First Presbyterian church and through court proceedings. Some of the families owning lots in Paramus Plains moved the remains of loved ones to Valleau Cemetery about a mile away, but most were reinterred in George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus, NJ. There is a block of about 125 graves that contain the remains of 550 individuals. a single flat bronze marker (two feet by Three feet) is the only marker among those graves, this marker explains the reinterrment and directs interested parties to visit the Ridgewood, NJ Village Clerk for specific information. (The Village of Ridgewood and Board of Education have little info.) No individual markers were installed at the new burial site. George Washington is well maintained. the Cemetery claims to have few detailed records, and can not identify specific burial locations within the mass grave, although in years past this specific information has been provided by the cemetery. The Ridgewood, NJ Main Library also has records of known burials (about 550)in the local history collection. The site of the former cemetery was "L" shaped surrounding the church, built on the corner (E. Ridgewood & S. Pleasant). The cemetery had frontage on East Ridgewood Ave. and South Pleasant Ave.

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  • Added: 21 Nov 2013
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