Fairview Cemetery (Culpeper, Virginia)
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Fairview Cemetery, also known as Citizens' Cemetery and Antioch Cemetery, is a historic
cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
located at Culpeper,
Culpeper County, Virginia Culpeper County is a county located along the borderlands of the northern and central region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 52,552. Its county seat and only incorporated community is Culp ...
, 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. an
''Accompanying four photos''
/ref> It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2006. Notable people buried there include
A.P. Hill Ambrose Powell Hill Jr. (November 9, 1825April 2, 1865) was a Confederate general who was killed in the American Civil War. He is usually referred to as A. P. Hill to differentiate him from another, unrelated Confederate general, Daniel Harvey H ...
(1825-1865), Confederate general, United States Congressmen John S. Barbour (1790–1855) and
John Franklin Rixey John Franklin Rixey (August 1, 1854 – February 8, 1907) was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic United States House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman from Virginia's Virginia's 8th congressional district, 8th congressional distric ...
(1854–1907).


References


External links

* {{National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Culpeper County, Virginia 1855 establishments in Virginia