{"nrhp_refnum":"98000900","name":"Fair Hill Burial Ground","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Roughly along Germantown, and Indiana Aves., Ninth, and Cambria Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.99671170700003,"lon":-75.14604935599993,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-08-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Black","Social History","Other"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A city-block burial ground of about four and a half acres in the Fair Hill neighborhood of North Philadelphia, bounded by Germantown Avenue, Indiana Avenue, Cambria Street and Ninth Street. It was opened by Hicksite Friends in 1842 and laid out in its present form in 1855.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the burial ground is significant for the many abolitionists, women's rights reformers and antislavery figures buried there, including Lucretia Mott and Robert Purvis. It also cites the cemetery's links to the Underground Railroad and the Seneca Falls women's rights movement, and its place among nineteenth-century Quaker burial grounds in the Philadelphia area.","narrative":"Fair Hill Burial Ground occupies a full city block in North Philadelphia, first used by Hicksite Friends in 1842 and laid out in its present form in 1855. Its small granite and limestone gravestones, set into a gently sloping hill around an oval brick drive, record only names and dates in keeping with Quaker practice. The grounds contain a stone vault built in 1858 to hold bodies over winter until spring burial, and an ornamental iron fence dating to about 1875. The cemetery is best known for its burials of abolitionists and reformers. Lucretia Coffin Mott, a leading antislavery and women's rights figure, is buried here with her husband James Mott, as are Robert Purvis, a founder of the Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania, and his wife Harriet Forten Purvis. Mary Ann McClintock, who attended the 1848 Seneca Falls organizing meeting, and Sarah Pugh, an antislavery leader, are also interred here. The site is valued for these associations with antislavery and women's rights history.","period_of_significance":"1842-1907","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","B"],"status_note":"The document states the burial ground retains its integrity, though some grave markers are illegible and some fence sections and sidewalk bricks are missing or replaced.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.939412-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/98000900.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000900/12cd11d605-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000900/12cd11d605-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fair_Hill_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fair_Hill_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997478","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Hill_Burial_Ground","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4906792"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/fair-hill-burial-ground-98000900/"}