Fairview Cemetery and Memorial Gardens is a 20-acre

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located in

Wahpeton, North Dakota Wahpeton ( ) is a city in Richland County, in southeast North Dakota along the Bois de Sioux River at its confluence with the Otter Tail River, which forms the Red River of the North. Wahpeton is the county seat of Richland County. The populat ...

. Established in 1869, Fairview is the final resting place for many notable area residents. Fairview is a non-denominational,

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governed by a nine-member volunteer

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. The cemetery comprises Old Fairview, which occupies the southern half of the cemetery grounds, and the Memorial Gardens, which is newer, and occupies the northern half.

External links

Fairview Cemetery Association
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