Trenton's Victorian garden cemetery on a 1670s Quaker burial ground, NRHP-listed for its landscape design, with the graves of Gen. George B. McClellan and the Roebling family.
870 Centre Street, Trenton, NJ 08611
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Free; active operating cemetery open during posted daytime hours. Visit respectfully.
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Sloping riverbank grounds with paved drives and grass sections; some grades down toward the Delaware
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Est. 1858 · On ground used as a Quaker burial place in the 1670s; established 1699, incorporated 1858 · Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2017 for landscape architecture · Grave of Gen. George B. McClellan, Union general and Governor of New Jersey · Roebling family plot, including Brooklyn Bridge engineer John A. Roebling
Riverview Cemetery sits on a slope above the Delaware River in Trenton, Mercer County. The ground was first used for burials in the 1670s by Quakers who had settled the area, and a graveyard there is documented to that decade. The cemetery was formally established in 1699 and reincorporated in 1858, when its grounds were reorganized along the lines of the rural-cemetery movement then reshaping American burial grounds into landscaped, parklike spaces.
That 19th-century design is the reason the cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 27, 2017, listed specifically for its significance in landscape architecture. The grounds follow the contours of the riverbank, with curving drives, mature plantings, and clusters of Victorian statuary and family monuments.
The cemetery's most prominent monument marks the grave of George B. McClellan, the Union major general who commanded the Army of the Potomac early in the Civil War and later served as Governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881. The Roebling family plot holds the grave of John A. Roebling, the engineer who designed the Brooklyn Bridge, along with other family members; a cenotaph remembers Washington A. Roebling II, who died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The grounds also hold the graves of Civil War officers, U.S. senators, and members of Congress.
The cemetery remains active and is maintained by the Riverview Cemetery Association. The Trenton Historical Society documents its place among the city's principal historic burial grounds.
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Riverview Cemetery appears in local guides to Trenton's historic burial grounds as a place worth walking for its Victorian statuary and its famous graves, rather than for any single ghost story. Writers documenting the city's cemeteries describe the rural-cemetery layout, the McClellan monument standing as the tallest marker on the grounds, and the Roebling plot with its connection to the Brooklyn Bridge and the Titanic.
Unlike many older cemeteries, Riverview carries no widely repeated haunting legend in published sources. What gives it its atmosphere is documented history: a burial ground in continuous use for more than three centuries, set on a slope above the Delaware, crowded with 19th-century monuments and the graves of generals, engineers, and senators. HauntBound lists it as a historic dark-tourism site for that reason, and notes the absence of any verified paranormal claim.
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Walk the sloping grounds above the Delaware River, laid out in 1858 in the rural-cemetery style. The tallest monument marks the grave of Union Major General and New Jersey Governor George B. McClellan; the Roebling family plot holds the graves of Brooklyn Bridge engineer John A. Roebling and a cenotaph for Washington A. Roebling II, who died on the Titanic.
The cemetery gates and upper sections are visible from Centre Street, where the grounds rise above the riverbank.
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