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Mt. Pleasant Walking Tour PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Wednesday, 01 October 2008
Newark, NJ

On Sunday, October 5th Jeffrey Bennett is  going to be leading a walking tour of an upper class, Victorian cemetery in Newark called Mt. Pleasant.  Mt. Pleasant is one of Newark’s two elite, Victorian Era Cemeteries. Except for the German-extraction Beer Barons, all of Newark’s 19th century elite lies interred in Mt. Pleasant. Come visit the Ballantines, the Kinneys, McCarters, Edward Weston, Frederick Frelinghuysen, Marcus Ward, Seth Boyden, John Fairfield Dryden, Franklin Murphy, Thomas B. Peddie, Charles Cummings and more in this cemetery where every family has a street named after it and every grave touching or artistic. The tour will meet at the front gates of the cemetery at 12:15 Sunday, October 5th. Parking is not available within the cemetery itself, but there is parking on the surrounding streets. The cost is $10 for first-time attendees. Since I want people to keep coming back, people who have already attended a tour do not need to pay, though I will accept a “donation.” For more information visit the website at http://www.newarkhistory.com/mtpleasantcemeterytour.html 
 
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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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“There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.”

Col. Harland Sanders

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If to be useful is our beings end and aim,
Then this high excellence, our friend might claim.
For this she lived, for this she spent her breath,
Nor ceased her acts of kindness, but with death.

Dedham. MA 1841

 

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