Weehawken Cemetery

{{Short description|Cemetery in New Jersey, U.S.}}

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|caption =East side of the Cemetery near the gate

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|country = United States

|location = Bergen Turnpike,
North Bergen, New Jersey

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The Weehawken Cemetery, like neighboring Hoboken Cemetery,{{cite book |last= Van Winkle |first=Daniel |title=History of the Municipalities of Hudson County, 1630–1923 |year=1923 |publisher=Higginson Book Company |isbn=0832850675 }} is not located in its namesake town of Weehawken but rather on the western slope of the Hudson Palisades in North Bergen, New Jersey,[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~murg/cemeteries.htm Hudson Cemeteries] with its main entrance on Bergen Turnpike. At its east side the cemetery is overlooked by the Bergen Crest Mausoleum and the Garden State Crematory.{{cite book |last= Veit |first=Richard Francis|author2=Mark Nonestied |title=New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape|year= 2008 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0813542362 }} and nearby Flower Hill Cemetery.

In December 2018 owner of the cemetery were ordered to halt work with felling trees when it was established that erosion could cause damage to existing graves on the hillside.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2018/12/with-gravestones-toppled-and-trees-down-nj-cemetery-looks-like-a-war-zone.html|title = With gravestones toppled and trees down, N.J. Cemetery 'looks like a war zone'|date = 30 December 2018}}