412 Port Republic Rd

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  4XX (even) Port Republic Rd. Fairview Cemetery. 1885 to present. | . Hillside cemetery with a small original section on Port Republic Road and later expansions eastward and downhill to Fairview Avenue. Concrete steps stand at street. Some borders have chain-link fencing, and there is a pair of large fir trees near the northeast comer. Historic memorials are conventional in form, material and detail. Short obelisks and segmental headstones of marble are typical through the first quarter of the twentieth century followed by thick granite headstones. Most obelisks stand on tooled bases of local limestone. Decoration includes carvings of flowers and vines and the occasional clasped hands and lambs. Notable markers include a pair of small uninscribed poured concrete markers with rounded tops in the Leach family plot and two modern granite headstones with a football theme at the south end of the cemetery. f In 1885 Joshua and Nancy Hill deeded one acre to a group of trustees for use as a "colored cemetery for the burial of colored persons." The Hills had acquired the land from the Crouse family. The cemetery was enlarged once in the late 1920s and again in the second half of the twentieth century. Early in the twentieth century many graves, especially in the original hilltop section, were marked with plain, uninscribed wooden headboards. (Augusta County Deed Book 102, p. 526; Sanborn maps; Lilly Mae Johnson). |

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