Beverly National Cemetery Explained

Beverly National Cemetery
Established:1863
Country:United States
Location:Edgewater Park, New Jersey
Type:Military veterans
Owner:US Department of Veterans Affairs
Size:64.6acres
Graves:>50,000
Website:Beverly National Cemetery
Findagraveid:99893
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Embed:yes
Beverly National Cemetery
Nearest City:Edgewater Park Township, New Jersey
Coordinates:40.0536°N -74.9158°W
Built:1864
Architect:Meigs, Montgomery C.
Architecture:Late Victorian, Second Empire
Added:October 15, 1997
Area:64.4acres
Refnum:97001201

Beverly National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Edgewater Park Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses, and as 2021 had over 50,000 interments.

History

The original cemetery was only a single acre off of Beverly's Monument Cemetery, purchased from a local resident in 1863 for the purpose of interring Union Army casualties who died in the Beverly United States Army hospital (run for the duration of the Civil War). Additional land was acquired in 1936, 1937, 1948, and 1951. It served as a burial ground only for those veterans who died in nearby hospitals, until space in the nearby Philadelphia National Cemetery became limited, and many interments that would have been made there were made at Beverly instead. Beverly National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Notable interments

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.cem.va.gov/cem/pdf/InterpretiveSigns/BeverlyNationalCemetery.pdf cem.va.gov
  2. https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/0dae01bf Society for American Baseball Research