Riverside Cemetery
(Zoar Bridge Cemetery)
Oxford, Connecticut
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Riverside Cemetery in Oxford, Connecticut (not to be confused with the Riverside Cemeteries in Shelton and Trumbull), is located next to Riverside Community Church on Freeman Road. Follow Route 34 (Drings Road/Roosevelt Drive) from Monroe over Stevenson Dam (Lake Zoar) and take a left onto Coppermine Road; the cemetery is at the fork of Coppermine and Freeman. The earliest stones date from the first decade of the 1800s; unfortunately most of the older stones are illegible. The oldest stone that I was able to read was dated 1815. The majority of the burials seem to have occurred in the mid- to late 1850s, and there are a fair amount of modern interments (late-1900s to the present). Common surnames in Riverside Cemetery include Downs, French, Smith, Wooster, and very notably, Stowe. The cemetery was actually relocated around 1897, when Stevenson Dam was built; thanks to Karl T. for the link detailing the story.
Estimated number of interments, as of January 2024: at least 398.
Photos taken 4 June 2010.
