Historic Berlin
Cemetery

    The Historic Berlin Cemetery was founded in 1766--ten years before the American Revolutionary War and twenty-three years before General George Washington became the first President of the United States. 

    It is the final resting place of Lenape Indians and Hessian soldiers.  It is the final home to a man who received the Congressional Medal of Honor and to a man who was our country's first Eagle Scout.

    The first Presbyterian meeting house in Long-a-Coming was a log building on the site of the present Berlin Cemetery Chapel.  It was constructed in the fall of 1762 on land that had been a King's grant (George III of England) to Samuel Scull of Long-a-Coming.  Reverend John Brainerd, a trustee of Princeton College, and missionary living in the Indian village of Brotherton in Burlington County, took up subscriptions in the area in 1762 to raise the funds for its construction.

    On September 18, 1766, Samuel Scull conveyed three acres to Michael Fisher, David Roe, Peter Cheeseman, Northrop Marple, and Henry Thome, as trustees of a Presbyterian Church for the sum of five shillings, to be set aside for a graveyard.  It is believed that some burials had been made there prior to the land transfer.

    For the next 100 years, little was done to maintain the cemetery.  Then, in 1884,  the Berlin Cemetery Association was formed.  The association is still in existence and continues to operate the cemetery.   

    The cemetery's new mausoleum (pictured on the left) was dedicated on September 30, 2001.  There is also a small Chapel in the building for services.

    For more information on the Historic Berlin Cemetery, contract the office at 856-767-0206.  The office is located at 40 Clementon Road in Berlin, NJ 08009.

- Photographs provided by Marie Knott, President of the Berlin Cemetery Association.

BERLIN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
40 CLEMENTON ROAD
BERLIN, NJ 08009