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Bergen County Potter's Field

Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA

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Get directions E Ridgewood Avenue
Paramus, New Jersey 07652 United States

Coordinates: 40.95937, -74.05731
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Potter's Field for 1300 bodies of those unclaimed or unidentified individuals from about 1916-1976, particularly those who were patients from Bergen Pines County Hospital in Paramus.

There are no tombstones. Graves were marked only with 4x4 inch concrete markers with carved numbers.

The cemetery is not marked.

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