Newark City Cemetery, also known as Newark Municipal Graveyard and Floral Rest, in Newark, New Jersey is a no-longer-used potter's field, or cemetery for the indigent.
[1] An 1889 report of the Department of Health of the State of New Jersey found with respect to the no-longer extant Clinton Township, which once included the area: "There are two cemeteries, or burial-places, in the township – Clinton cemetery, in the village and upon the banks of Elizabeth River, and Newark potter's field, down in the salt meadow section".
[2] Located in the Dayton neighborhood on Bessemer St. near Newark Airport and is prominently visible from the monorail serving it.
[3] The city began using the cemetery as a dump in 1954, until it was ordered to restore it in 1998.
[4][5][6] The area has been restored, but as of 2010 it is closed to the public.