Fairview Cemetery (Culpeper, Virginia) Explained

Fairview Cemetery
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:September 8, 2004[1]
Designated Other1 Number:204-5031
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:VA 522, approx. 1/2 mi. W of Main St., Culpeper, Virginia, United States
Coordinates:38.4811°N -78.0053°W
Builder:Culpeper Hardware Manufacturing (1907 caretaker’s lodge)
Architecture:Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements
Added:January 11, 2006
Refnum:05001521

Fairview Cemetery, also known as Citizens' Cemetery and Antioch Cemetery, is a historic cemetery located at Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, United States.

History

It was established in 1855. The property includes a contributing mid-19th-century municipal cemetery, an early-20th-century African-American cemetery, a monument to Confederate dead (1881), an enclosure wall, and a caretaker's lodge.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

Notable people buried there include A.P. Hill (1825-1865), Confederate general, United States Congressmen John S. Barbour (1790–1855) and John Franklin Rixey (1854–1907).

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 21 September 2013. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fairview Cemetery . Evelyn D. Causey . June 2004. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying four photos