Newton Union Burial Ground

05/08/2020

I was walking around the cemetery looking for damage from last week's wind storm and found this. Someone scratched this into the surface of one of the very old tombstones. It's illegible. Please educate others on the importance of this historic site.

01/08/2020

We just had a tombstone survey performed yesterday. Thank you to Greg Fusco and his team at Key Engineers in Berlin, New Jersey for donating their time for this special project.

08/30/2019

The following are photos of 37 tombstone fragments found in the cement square/well located in the Newton Union Burial Ground in West Collingswood, NJ.

08/06/2019

The rest of the white survey flags were placed in the cemetery today. I need to double check the work. All of the stones are now associated with a number.

08/01/2019

You may start to see some small survey flags in front of the tombstones in the Sloan section of the cemetery. We are adding unique identifiers (a number) to help identify the stones since most of them are difficult to read or unreadable. This will help assist in our survey of the burial ground and aid in damage reports.

07/22/2019

This is the Charles S Boyer survey of the Ancient Newton Burial Ground. Photo from the Camden County Historical Society.

07/15/2019

This is a survey of the NUBG conducted by the WPA in 1937.

07/13/2019

tombstones of newton union burial ground

This is a complete set of photographs of all of the tombstones in the Sloan section in 2019. We still have some tombstones in the basement of the West Collingswood Train Station. We'll add them after cleaning and identification.

07/13/2019

Here is an article from The Retrospect by Mark Zeigler.

06/23/2019

I wanted to post a quick update. The Newton Union Burial Ground is now listed on the NJ Registry of Historic Places.