{"nrhp_refnum":"100012124","name":"Fairview Cemetery","other_names":["Dhr Id#132-5018"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"11 Lambert Street","address_restricted":false,"city":"Staunton","county":"Staunton","state":"VA","lat":38.16463200000004,"lon":-79.06797099999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2025-08-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Ethnic Heritage-Black","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fairview Cemetery is a 33.7-acre cemetery complex on the north side of Sperryville Pike (U.S. Route 522) in the town of Culpeper, Virginia, with a 20.7-acre nominated area. It combines a mid-19th-century municipal cemetery (Citizens' Cemetery) with an early-20th-century African-American cemetery (Antioch Cemetery).","why_significant":"The nomination presents the cemetery as two linked burial grounds whose original designs remain largely intact. Its landscape plan, grave markers, plot enclosures and 1881 Confederate monument reflect late 19th- and early 20th-century cemetery design. It also documents the 1903 segregation of the town cemetery and the response of African-American organizations that bought and managed their own burial ground in 1904.","narrative":"Fairview Cemetery occupies high ground on the north side of Sperryville Pike in Culpeper, Virginia. It consists of two cemeteries with linked but separate histories: the municipal Citizens' Cemetery, laid out in the mid-1800s and expanded in later additions, and an adjoining African-American cemetery, also called Antioch Cemetery. Roads follow a grid, with a Confederate monument erected in 1881 as the focal point of the older section. Other features include a stone and iron enclosure wall along the highway, a two-story caretaker's lodge built in 1907, and many family plots with tablet markers, obelisks, and varied enclosures. The Black cemetery began in 1904, when Antioch Baptist Church and two fraternal organizations bought land after the town required segregated burials in 1903. Antioch Baptist Church added land in 1921. The grounds remain in use and keep much of their original layout, markers and landscaping.","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 among the historic ones. It has lost some vegetation and grave markers but retains its integrity.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.586409-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/29/6803/41680329/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/05001521.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":null,"wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/staunton/fairview-cemetery-100012124/"}