{"nrhp_refnum":"05001521","name":"Fairview Cemetery","other_names":["Vdhr Id# 204-5031","Citizens' Cemetery","Antioch Cemetery"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"VA 522, approx. 1/2 mi. W of Main St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Culpeper","county":"Culpeper County","state":"VA","lat":38.48141019900004,"lon":-78.0042288980917,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-01-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Black","Community Planning and Development","Art"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fairview Cemetery is a municipal cemetery complex on the north side of Sperryville Pike (Route 522) in Culpeper, Virginia, made up of a mid-19th-century town cemetery and an adjoining early-20th-century African-American cemetery. The nominated area covers 20.7 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the cemetery as a well-preserved example of late-19th and early-20th-century cemetery landscape design, with grave markers, plot layouts and a Confederate monument at its center. It also documents how the town segregated its cemetery in 1903 and how African-American organizations responded by buying and managing their own burial ground in 1904.","narrative":"Fairview Cemetery in Culpeper, Virginia, combines two burial grounds on the north side of Sperryville Pike. The older is a municipal cemetery the town bought land for in the mid-1800s, known as Citizens' Cemetery until 1903. Beside it lies an African-American cemetery, also called Antioch Cemetery, established in 1904 by Antioch Baptist Church and two fraternal organizations, the Odd Fellows and the Galilean Fishermen. The grounds follow a grid of gravel drives centered on a Confederate monument erected in 1881. Other features include a stone enclosure wall built from 1904 into the 1920s, a caretaker's lodge from 1907, family plots, and markers dating mostly from 1870 to 1955. The property matters for its intact late-Victorian cemetery design and for the story of segregation in 1903, when the town council required separate burial areas. The Black community responded by purchasing and managing its own cemetery. The two were joined in 1970, and the cemetery remains in use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Caretaker's lodge built in 1907 by Culpeper Hardware Manufacturing","architectural_style":"Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century American Movements","criteria":[],"status_note":"The cemetery remains active, with modern grave markers scattered among historic ones; some vegetation and grave markers have been lost but the original designs are largely intact.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.196426-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/6803/41680329/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05001521.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001521/4ad7f5b28a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001521/4ad7f5b28a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Cecouchman","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FairviewCemetery_3902.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Cecouchman</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FairviewCemetery_3902.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680329","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_Cemetery_(Culpeper,_Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712305"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/culpeper-county/fairview-cemetery-05001521/"}