Special Joint Tour: Newarkhistory.com and Newark Landmarks and Preservation Committee was held this past October 17th...
Historic Mount Pleasant Cemetery, the oldest, largest and most scenic in Newark. Considered a masterpiece of landscape design and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Mount Pleasant is the final resting place of many notables of government, industry, finance and culture during nearly half of the city’s existence. Its 40 acres feature a variety of elaborate monuments, winding pathways, and lush vegetation.
The tour was led by two experienced guides who are experts in local history -- Elizabeth Del Tufo, president of the Newark Preservation & Landmarks Committee, and Jeffrey Bennett, founder and webmaster of “Newarkhistory.com.”
Here are a few highlights photos from the tour...
Monuments range from the massive marble mausoleum of John Dryden, founder of the Prudential Insurance Co., to the poignant statue of a girl in a dancer’s costume – Maud Munn, who died at the age of 10 in 1902. Among the celebrities entombed in Mount Pleasant are Mary Stillwell Edison, first wife of inventor Thomas Edison; Samuel Augustus Ward, composer of the melody of “American the Beautiful”; and Henry William Herbert, considered the first American writer about sports.
The vaults and tombstones bear many names that loom large in any history of Newark – Govs. Franklin Murphy and Marcus Ward, brewer Peter Ballantine, inventors Seth Boyden and Edward Weston, and numerous members of the Baldwin, Clark, Frelinghuysen, McCarter, and Scudder families.
Learn more at:
NEWARK PRESERVATION AND LANDMARKS COMMITTEE: http://www.newarklandmarks.org/index.htm
NEWARKHISTORY.COM:
http://www.newarkhistory.com/
WIKIPEDIA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pleas
DON'T MISS THE NEXT TOUR:
Reservations are recommended, and can be made at the Landmarks Committee office, 973-622-4910.
Tickets are $30 for committee members, and $35 for all others.
Here are a few highlights photos from the tour...
Monuments range from the massive marble mausoleum of John Dryden, founder of the Prudential Insurance Co., to the poignant statue of a girl in a dancer’s costume – Maud Munn, who died at the age of 10 in 1902. Among the celebrities entombed in Mount Pleasant are Mary Stillwell Edison, first wife of inventor Thomas Edison; Samuel Augustus Ward, composer of the melody of “American the Beautiful”; and Henry William Herbert, considered the first American writer about sports.
The vaults and tombstones bear many names that loom large in any history of Newark – Govs. Franklin Murphy and Marcus Ward, brewer Peter Ballantine, inventors Seth Boyden and Edward Weston, and numerous members of the Baldwin, Clark, Frelinghuysen, McCarter, and Scudder families.
Learn more at:
NEWARK PRESERVATION AND LANDMARKS COMMITTEE: http://www.newarklandmarks.org/index.htm
NEWARKHISTORY.COM:
http://www.newarkhistory.com/
WIKIPEDIA:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pleas
DON'T MISS THE NEXT TOUR:
Sunday, Nov 14th 12:00 Noon to 5:oo PM...
"The American Craftsman Home
and Gustave Stickley in Newark" at the Newark Museum
Reservations are recommended, and can be made at the Landmarks Committee office, 973-622-4910.
Tickets are $30 for committee members, and $35 for all others.
| TOUR INCLUDES ADMISSION TO: Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement |
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