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Like us on facebook www.facebook.com/mypaperonline.com • Hanover News • June 2018 • Page 9
Whippany Burying Yard Celebrates 300 Years
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By Stefanie Sears ccording to Hanover Township Landmark Commission member, former Mayor of Hanover Township, “A Place Called Whippany” author, and lifelong Whippany resident Leonardo Fariello, the Whippany Burying Yard is site of a lot of the town’s “firsts.”
“It’s the oldest burying yard,” explains Fariello, “It’s also the place of the first school, first church. It’s a lot of ‘first’ things, so it has a lot of significance history.” The Whippany Burying Yard, or the “Whippanong Burying Yard” as it is historically known, celebrates its tercentennial this year and calls upon all res-
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idents to recognize the its historical importance. An original relic of our country, the Whippany Burying Yard was established before Hanover Township, Morris County, New Jersey, and even the United States were even founded and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Whippany Burying Yard
is home to colonial artifacts, particularly 300 marked and countless unmarked headstones and the Plymouth Rock of Whippany. Schoolmaster John Richards’s name was the first one carved in stone in 1718, hence the 300-year anniversary. Richards donated the land to his “Christian friends and neighbors of Whipcontinued on page 10
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