Confederate Monument, Fairfax, VA
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N 38° 50.831 W 077° 18.731
18S E 299342 N 4302358
Confederate Monument located in the City Cemetery
Waymark Code: WM129Q
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 12/23/2006
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On December 31, 1866, the trustees of the Ladies Memorial Association paid Richard T. Brown and his wife, Marion, $225.00 for 2 1/3 acres. It was purchased
"… as a burial place or cemetery for the re-interment of the bodies of such persons as the 'Ladies Memorial Association' of said County of Fairfax shall direct to be interred therein. Provided that in all cases such bodies shall be those of Confederate States' Soldiers, who fell in battle or died from wounds incident to and while they were in the service of the Confederate States, and who are now buried within the limits of said county, or who were citizens thereof at the time of death and are buried elsewhere…"
In addition to laying off burial lots, the Ladies Memorial Association canvassed the county and eventually some 200 unknown confederate soldiers were disinterred and reburied in a common grave atop the hill in the cemetery. In 1888, the Confederate Monument Association was formed to erect a suitable monument to both the unknown Confederate dead buried in the cemetery and the Confederate soldiers from Fairfax who lay on battlefields far from home. In October 1890 the monument, designed and built by J. F. Manning Co. of Washington, D. C., was officially dedicated.
Date Installed or Dedicated: 10/01/1890
Name of Government Entity or Private Organization that built the monument: Confederate Monument Association of Fairfax, Virginia
Union, Confederate or Other Monument: Confederate
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