Fairmount Cemetery (Newark, New Jersey)

thumb|190px|The Krueger Mausoleumthumb|190px|The Setters' Monument

Fairmount Cemetery is a 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. The first burial in Fairmount Cemetery was a 24-year-old man named Lewis J. Pierson.

Along with Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Fairmount has the graves of Newark’s most eminent turn of the century citizens. Clara Maass, who gave her life in the investigation of yellow fever. 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.

Notable burials

• Harriet Adams (1893-1982), pseudonymous author of many books in the Nancy Drew series and a few in the Hardy Boys series., Find A Grave. Accessed August 23, 2007.
• Peter Angelo Cavicchia (1879-1967)
• Gottfried Krueger, brewer
• Henry Meade Doremus
• Thomas Dunn English......
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