The Greenwood Cemetery Society

There have been various articles in local newspaper about cemeteries in surrounding towns having financial troubles that make proper care of the cemeteries challenging. Greenwood Cemetery in Tuckerton is a case in point. The cemetery has been looking unkempt lately, and local citizens have rallied to attend meetings to strengthen and give support to the Cemetery Board to improve the appearance of the cemetery. Hopefully, their efforts will be successful.

Greenwood Cemetery Entrance- Rt 539
(Photo by Pete Stemmer)

The problem of keeping Greenwood Cemetery looking presentable is an old problem which led to the formation of the  Greenwood Cemetery Society in 1928. 

The Greenwood Cemetery Society sometime back morphed into the Tuckerton Old Home Society which maintains Greenwood Cemetery today. I am unaware of when and how this happened. Perhaps someone out in the Blog-O-Sphere, can shed some light on the situation.


Pete S

The Sandpaper Newspaper Online

The Sandpaper Newspaper has excellent local history articles, often written by Pat Johnson, my favorite local history reporter. Unfortunately, It is not available in New Gretna and those of you out in the Blog-O-Sphere away from Tuckerton do not have access to it. 

I was pleased to find out that it is available on line. You may want to pay a visit to its Web Site and bookmark it for future reference. Click on the Sandpaper photo below to go to their web site.

The latest edition has an article on a Civil War presentation that I recently gave at the Tuckerton Library. It focused on the Civil War and Little Egg Harbor. 

 Pete S