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Slave Cemetery - Turley Hall
This site was first reported as the "Slave and Help" cemetery associated with "Turley Hall" by lifelong Chantilly resident LESLIE COATES (1907-1999). "Turley Hall" was built c. 1797 and burned in 1995. Thundebird Archeology investigated this area…
Tags: cemetery, centreville, historical site, slavery, slaves, Sully
Pearson Family Cemetery
The cemetery is located on common ground in the Edgewater Subdivision. This small cemetery has been subject to serious vandalism for many years. 1977 and 1987 surveys found the gravestones in a pile near the center of the plot, and a hole dug into…
Tags: burke, cemetery, springfield
Clifton Union Cemetery
The minutes of the Union Cemetery Club showed that a meeting was held June 10, 1899, to acquire land for a "burying place for colored people." The land was purchased on June 25, 1899. The cemetery is fenced and contains over one hundred burials, many…
Tags: cemetery, clifton, springfield
Unnamed Cemetery on Lee Highway
A single-family home exists was built at the address in 1971.
Tags: cemetery, fairfax, providence
Scott Family Cemetery
"Strawberry Vale" was built c. 1780 and was demolished in 1958 for the construction of the Capital Beltway. The transfer of Strawberry Vale from JOHN C. SCOTT to THEODORIC LEE on Oct. 29, 1811 (Deed Book L2:318) exempted a ¼-acre burial ground. Diane…
Tags: cemetery, providence
Strawberry Vale
From the county cemetery survey: FX382:
"Strawberry Vale" was built c. 1780 and was demolished in 1958 for the construction of the Capital Beltway. Diane Rafuse wrote in her book "Maplewood" (1970): "Near the wooded area (about 300 yards from the…
"Strawberry Vale" was built c. 1780 and was demolished in 1958 for the construction of the Capital Beltway. Diane Rafuse wrote in her book "Maplewood" (1970): "Near the wooded area (about 300 yards from the…
Tags: cemetery, providence, slavery, slaves, tysons corner
Robinson, Pearson, Hicks Family Cemetery
The Fairfax County cemetery survey said “the small cemetery contains seven headstones and an undetermined number of unmarked burials. Permission to resurvey the cemetery in 1994 was denied, according to the Fairfax County Cemetery Survey.”
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Tags: cemetery, dunn loring, providence
Ford-Ellis-Syms Cemetery
The cemetery is located about 100' north of the house. Dogwood trees line the north, west, and south sides of the 30'x 60' plot. Periwinkle is growing under the trees and on some graves. There are 12 clearly discernible grave depressions, four of…
Tags: cemetery, dranesville, great falls
Guinea Road Cemetery
Archaeological Investigation Report:In 2004, Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) announced the widening of Guinea Road and Little River Turnpike. Neighbors volunteered there was a cemetery located at the intersection. VDOT ‘s announcement…
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
The Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1882. By 1893, the congregation had enough funding to purchase an acre of land for a church building and cemetery. An original trustee, Samuel Sharper, died in 1895, before church…
Tags: cemetery, dranesville, mclean
Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery
Five acres of land were purchased from the heirs of Charles Elgin in 1903 for church purposes and a burial ground.
Tags: cemetery, dranesville, mclean
Peake Family Cemetery
This cemetery is the final resting place of both Black and White residents of Gum Springs. The Peake family owned the property from 1762-1805. The Peake family held 3 enslaved people and the area is believed to have been an enslaved cemetery. West…
Tags: cemetery, mount vernon
Coleman Cemetery
This is a historically African American Cemetery. The land for this cemetery was purchased by the Churches and Fraternities Association of Alexandria on Oct. 27, 1944. It appears that many of the older graves were relocated from an Odd Fellows…
Snowden and Bethlehem Cemetery
The land was transferred from Stacey and Elizabeth Snowden to the Trustees of Bethlehem Baptist Church in the early 1900s. The cemetery includes formal markers, fieldstones, concrete and wooden markers, and funeral home markers.
Tags: cemetery, mount vernon
West End Cemetery
This cemetery is located on the west side of the 500 block of Lewis Street, off Lawyers Road, in Vienna. According to an article in the 26 May 1988 Vienna Times by Carol Bonham, this cemetery is on land once owned by Capt. Harmon L. Salsbury where he…
Sons and Daughters Cemetery
Established by the Grand United Order of the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, Lodge No. 9, in 1892, this community cemetery has over one hundred burials, many of them unmarked, and is in current use. The cemetery was surveyed in 1976 and 1988.
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