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Fairview is a beautiful cemetery which dates back to the 1800’s. Its rolling acres have met the needs and desires of many who seek a peaceful well-maintained burial place.
One of Fairview’s historic markers is the common grave and memorial monument for Confederate soldiers erected in 1881. The landscape design and the collection of many unique private monuments found in Fairview are typical of late 19th and early 20th century cemeteries.
Fairview was placed on the Virginia Landmarks Register on September 8, 2004 and was entered into the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service on January 11, 2006.
Fairview Cemetery, also known as Citizens' Cemetery and Antioch Cemetery, is an historic cemetery located at Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia. It was established in 1855. The property includes a contributing mid-19th-century municipal cemetery, an early-20th-century black cemetery, a monument to Confederate dead (1881), an enclosure wall, and a caretaker's lodge. It is comprised of 33.7 acres of land on the north side of Sperryville Pike (Rt. 522) in the town of Culpeper, Virginia.