| This cemetery was inventoried by New Milford Girl Scout Troop 52 in 2002. The cemetery is located behind the New Milford Boro Hall, 930 River Road. (See map below.) Also referred to as the French Burying Ground.
Some of the residents of New Bridge are interred here. More research to be made available.
Our webpage on the Demarest House Museum provides a history on the vicinity of the cemetery.
I scanned the inscription pages of the tombstones to pdf and a few of the actual inventory pages. The Girl Scouts have it divided into Binder 1 and Binder 2. Full copies are available at the New Milford Public Library, the Bergen County Cultural and Historic Preservation Commission, Hackensack, NJ and the Blauvelt-Demarest Family Foundation, Oradell, NJ.
Girl Scout Troop 52 received a well-deserved Historic Preservation Commendation Award from the Bergen County Historic Preservation Advisory Board in 2003.
Click here for the American Legion Map of the Huguenot Cemetery.
Click here for the 1902/1908 Tombstone Inscriptions of the French Burying Ground by John Neafie. Someone highlighted quite a few of the names on this copy, for unknown reasons.
This is a work in progress, please contact me with additional information. I'll try and get some information on access into the cemetery. I would like to thank Ann Subrizi for providing to access to a copy of the inventory -- to post on this website. Note: the cemetery is nicely maintained.
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French Huguenot – Demarest Cemetery Photo by D. Powell, 2008
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Regards,
Deborah Powell,
BCHS President
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