Bergen County - Little Ferry - Tour the African American Gethsemane Cemetery

Saturday, June 16 - Little Ferry, Bergen County
Tour the African American Gethsemane Cemetery

The Historic African American Gethsemane Cemetery, a Bergen County Historic Site, will be open 1:00 - 3:30 pm on Saturday during Bergen County’s Juneteenth Celebration.  Gethsemane Cemetery is located on Summit Place in Little Ferry, NJ.  It will be open for self-guided tours from 1:00 - 3:30 pm and a guided tour with Gethsemane Historian Arnold Brown at 2:15 pm. 

Gethsemane Cemetery is located on a 1-acre sandy hill west of the Hackensack River. It was entered onto the National Register of Historic Places due to the significant role it played in the enactment of New Jersey’s early civil rights legislation, as well as containing evidence of West African burial customs.

Everyone is invited to Bergen County’s day-long Juneteenth Celebration – “African Americans in Times of War” – at Overpeck County Park.  This is the 153rd  Anniversary of Juneteenth the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond.

This all-day Juneteenth Celebration will be held rain or shine from 10:00 am - 8:00 pm at the the Bergen County New Overpeck Park, Ridgefield Park.  Entrance to the park is off Fort Lee Road in Teaneck / Leonia.  There will be entertainment for visitors of all ages, including food, children’s games, cultural and historical displays, vendors, exhibitors and family reunions. In the afternoon there will be buses leaving from the park at 2:00 pm for tours of Gethsemane Cemetery and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. monument which is located on the Hackensack River Pathway on the FDU campus in Hackensack. For more information, email Arnold Brown at duboisbks@aol.com.
Location: 370 Liberty St, Little Ferry, NJ 07643, USA

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