Salem County Cultural & Heritage Commission
Hosts Historical Cemetery Walk

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Storyteller Yvonne Stephan and Salem County Historical Society Director Jim Turk greet a crowd of 50 at the Friends Burial Ground in Salem City.
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Edifice to Reverend Prescott at St. John's Episcopal Church who died and was buried at sea in 1844 on the way to the Azores.
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St. John's tomb of Colonel Robert Gibbon Johnson who lived 30 more years after eating the "deadly tomato" in 1820.
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First Presbyterian Church cemetery, home of the 1876 Centennial Oak (offspring of the Salem Oak).

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