Okay. Here goes, for the second time. I lost my first response.
Nykki,
From Wading River to New Gretna, along and near 542, there are several cemeteries. In Wading River, turn down Turtle Creek Road, then bare left at a fork. In there, there is a cemetery on private property that I have not visited yet. Then there is the previously mentioned Adams-Leek-McKeen Cemetery behind the big white house near the Wading River Bridge. Then further down 542, before you get to New Gretna, there is one known as the French Cemetery, named after a family called French. Then in New Gretna there is a small cemetery in front of Cramer's Junkyard. Also, before you you get to the junkyard, on a side-road, there is another one that's called Hillside Cemetery.
Now for the other side of the Mullica- On the edge of Port Republic, at the corner of 575 (Pomona Road) and alt. 561 (Moss Mill Road) there is a small cemetery with all graves of black Civil War veterans. It says NJ Colored Troups and U.S. Colored Troups on their tombstones. Further east on alt. 561, past Pitney Road but before you get to Smithville, there is a small cemetery on the right with a chain-link fence around it. I assume that's because the surrounding woods is being bulldozed for housing.
On Indian Cabin Road in Port Republic (you have to get to it from Pomona Road, because it's east of the Parkway) there is a cemetery at the site of the Clark's Mill Meeting House, which is a church that blew down in a windstorm way back in 1820.
The Clark Graves are on an island in the marshes along the Mullica River. You have to get on 624 (Clark's Landing Road). Then go up a dirt road on the north side of 624 and follow it out almost to the dead-end at the Mullica. (This dirt road has an old overgrown trail-riding ranch next to it.) Just before the dirt road ends at the river there's what looks like a fork in the road. Bare left there and watch out for soft sand. Park there and walk to the left, following the river. There's a faint trail. Eventually the trail leads you through the tall reeds. At one point along the way, before that island the graves are on, you will have to walk over a small boardwalk. Watch out because near the end there is one board missing, unless it's been replaced. You go over one or two small islands in the reeds, and the graves are on another one that's bigger with lots of trees. The gravestones lay flat on the ground, to the right of the path.
Also, way out in Mullica Township on 561 there are a few graves in the woods at the northwest corner of 561 and a very short side road. On the other side of 561 from there, there is a black Jewish Synagogue called Adaht Beht Mosheh or something like that. You can't miss it. I think it's just west of a bend in the road.
There are others that I could tell you about, but I think I've already gotten carried away here.
Barry
bunnymom3 said:
Mitch and I are heading that way tomorrow. There are 3 cemeterys in that area from what I have read. We were down that way a few weeks ago too looking around. Will have tro check out the Clark Landing RD. one too if I can find it. It's in that area?
Nykki
