Riverview Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware

Friends of Historic Riverview Cemetery
P.O. Box 2173
Wilmington, DE 19899
(302) 762-4705

Riverview Cemetery

     Riverview Cemetery, a Victorian garden cemetery, opened in1872 and consists of 87 acres on both sides of Market Street. There are 36,000 people interred here and space for another 20,000 burials.
     Riverview Cemetery's mission has always been to provide a dignified and affordable final resting place for loved ones regardless of social, ethnic, religious and economic backgrounds.
     In recent years the conditions at Riverview Cemetery have deteriorated. But that will slowly change as the "The Friend's of Historic Riverview Cemetery" are in the process of cleaning up the cemetery in hopes of restoring it to its original glory!

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Please note the following fees associated with Cemetery Operations:

Purchase of New Plot   -   $1,000.00
Burial ( casket or cremains )   -   $500.00
Headstone, Grave Marker, Monument Placement   -   $75.00
      ( Fee waived for government-provided, military gravestones )
Genealogy Look Up:  "Click Here" for request form.

Upcoming Events:
( Volunteer Certificates for Students on request )
July 17th:  Saturday 9:00 to Noon:  Weed, plant, mulch, & water daylily bed on Washington St.  Requesting more daylilies for planting  -  Please drop off day of event!  We will finish the project we started in June.  Also we will clear broken pieces of marble out of public mausoleum (place in containers and move by vehicle to the former garage on the east side.
August 21st:  Saturday 9:00 to Noon:  Clear 31 Street fence line of debris.  (This is a shady area!)
September (Date TBD):  Saturday 9:00 to Noon:  Remove Ivy from McMullen wall.  (This is a shady area!) and also plant large forsythia  -  East end to make boundary with fence.  Donations of large forsythia for planting  -  Drop off day of event!

Special Links of Interest
     We invite you to check out our links noted below:
"2010 Good Neighbor Award Recipients"
"Our past newsletters"
"Riverview Cemetery Facts"
"Veterans Interred in Riverview" - - ( List currently being worked on.... incomplete )
"People of Interest Interred in Riverview" - - ( List currently being worked on.... incomplete )
"Delaware Community Foundation" - ( make donations to Riverview Cemetery and many others )
"Timestone Press" - ( A book by Dr. Lee Anderson on Riverview Cemetery and the personal memories of those interred there )

Not a Member of FHRC ??
     We invite you to join the "Friends of Historic Riverview Cemetery".   We believe that together we can restore and preserve this historic and much-loved cemetery.   For a form please click on the option of your choice below:
"Click Here" for Word Format
"Click Here" for PDF Format
You can also join or get more info by emailing: riverviewfriends@gmail.com

The Riverview Cemetery website was created and is maintained by:
Russ Pickett
Page Updated: Monday, July 5, 2010