Machpelah Cemetery (North Bergen, New Jersey)

"Doubled Cave") is a cave-within-a-cave located in Hebron that Biblical tradition ascribes the status of the burial tomb for Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their wives.

18 in then Maisland, which contained a celebrated and exotic garden, locally called the "Frenchman's Garden",[9] since the well-known botanist André Michaux was commissioned by the King of France, Louis XVI in 1786 as a botanist with the ability to import any plant, tree or vegetable from France that was desired by the United States.

[10] The Lombardy poplar was originally stocked in the garden, and, introduced into commerce, eventually spread throughout the United States.

[14] In 1900, many who died in the massive fire on the Hoboken piers the SS Saale,[15] and SS Bremen on the North River (Hudson River) were interred at the cemetery and the adjacent Flower Hill in gravesites purchased by the shipping company.

[16][17] In 2022, Hudson County and volunteers embarked on program to restore gravestones of over 300 veterans buried at the cemetery.

Machpelah is the northernmost of cemeteries along the western slope of the Palisades in northern Hudson County .
1873 map showing Macpelah Cemetery