Siloam Cemetery

Siloam Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in the city of Vineland in Cumberland County, New Jersey. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 3, 2020, for its significance in architecture and landscape architecture.[4]

Siloam Cemetery
Siloam Chapel
Location550 North Valley Avenue
Vineland, New Jersey
Area14.4 acres (5.8 ha)
ArchitectH.M. Holbrook
Architectural styleGothic Revival
NRHP reference No.100005155[1][2]
NJRHP No.5451[3]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPApril 3, 2020
Designated NJRHPAugust 12, 2019

The cemetery, located at 550 North Valley Avenue, was established in 1864 on a plot of land donated by Charles K. Landis, the founder of Vineland. A chapel was constructed in 1918 and features Gothic Revival architecture.[4] It is located in the center of one of the original sections of the cemetery. Many local residents, some of whom were nationally prominent, are buried there.

Gothic arches

Notable interments
  • Henry Herbert Goddard (1866–1957), researcher at Vineland Training School
  • Charles K. Landis (1833–1900), founder of Vineland, an attorney, author, and real estate developer
  • Jeanette DuBois Meech (1835–1911), evangelist and industrial educator
  • Mary Elizabeth Tillotson (1816–1888), a dress reformer, spiritualist, suffragist, and poet. Tillotson organized the country’s first anti-fashion convention in 1874, and symbolically voted in the first presidential election held after the Civil War.
  • Mary Treat (1831?–1923), a naturalist who corresponded with Charles Darwin
  • Thomas Bramwell Welch (1825–1903), developer of Welch's grape juice

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System – (#100005155)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "Weekly List 20200403". National Park Service. April 3, 2020.
  3. "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places – Cumberland County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection – Historic Preservation Office. September 29, 2022. p. 6. listed as the Siloam Cemetery Historic District
  4. Susan Panco Medio; Patricia A. McMahon (April 2019). National Register of Historic Places Registration: Siloam Cemetery (Draft) (PDF). National Park Service. With accompanying 49 photos.
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