1685 | Riverview Cemetery

RIVERVIEW CEMETERY, situated on a bluff overlooking the Delaware River in Trenton, was incorporated by an act of the state legislature of New Jersey on February 26, 1858.

Along its tree-lined avenues are memorialized many notables, including: Charles Conrad Abbott, archaeologist and naturalist; George Antheil, the “Bad Boy” composer; Isaac Broome, sculptor; Walter Scott Lenox, founder of the world-renowned Lenox, Inc.; George Brinton McClellan, general of the Grand Army of the Potomac and governor of New Jersey; John Augustus Roebling, civil engineer and pioneer of wire suspension bridges, best known for his design of the Brooklyn Bridge; Washington Augustus Roebling, 2d., who perished in the foundering of R.M.S. Titanic; Harold N. “Bus” Saidt, Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter; Stanley Switlik, founder of Switlik Parachute Company and inductee into the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey; and John Taylor, founder of the Taylor Provisions Company, makers of the world-famous Taylor Pork Roll.