Platanus occidentalis, a colored plate by Henri-Joseph Redouté in North American Sylva, published in 1819 Wikimedia Commons The Amer...

Ephemeral items connected to persons interred here at Riverview Cemetery always draw my attention, and some months ago while browsing an onl...

Yucca flaccida , colored plate by S.A. Drake in Edward’s Botanical Register , published in 1836 While Riverview Cemetery has a signific...

The Receiving Vault at Riverview Cemetery A “receiving vault” is a structure designed to hold the bodies of the deceased during the wint...

I recently came across the obituary for Sarah Lukens Woolman in the Trenton Times of December 8, 1903, which noted that “She was the widow ...