Fairmount Cemetery, Newark

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The Pierson Monument

The Krueger Mausoleum

The Setters' Monument

Fairmount Cemetery is a 150 acre (607,000 m²) Victorian cemetery in the West Ward of Newark, New Jersey in the neighborhood of Fairmount. It opened in 1855, shortly after the Newark City Council banned burials in the central city due to fears that bodies spread yellow fever. Fairmount is still accepting internments.

Along with Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Fairmount has the graves of Newark’s most eminent turn of the century citizens. Famous interees include brewer Gottfried Krueger, builder of the lavish Krueger Mansion on Martin Luther King Boulevard; fellow brewer Christian Feigenspan; Henry Lang of the Henry Lang Company and mayor 1882 - 1883; Clara Maass, who gave her life in the investigation of yellow fever; Gerhard Heinrich Mennen and William Heinrich Mennen of the Mennen Corporation. There are also many locally famous politicians and gangsters. A high proportion of the graves belong to German families. Fairmount Cemetery has beautiful trees, rolling hills, and intricately carved monuments. By the old South Orange Avenue entrance there is the recently restored zinc Settlers' Monument, commemorating the founders of Newark. There is also a Civil War memorial. The modern entrance to Fairmount Cemetery is on Central Avenue.