Fair Hill Burial Ground

Neighborhood:North

Address:
2901 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19133

Significance:
Founded in 1703, Fair Hill is considered one of the earliest Quaker meetings in the region. The Fair Hill Burial Ground was laid out on its current site in 1843 and enlarged in 1853. Bounded by 9th Street, Germantown Avenue, Indiana Street and Cambria Street, Fair Hill Burial Ground is the final resting place for important activists in the anti-slavery movement, including Lucretia Mott, Robert Purvis and Harriet Forten Purvis. A stone meeting house and a frame house also stand at the site. To learn more, visit http://fairhillburial.org/

Type of Historic Resource:cemetery

Date Built / Architect:1842

Extant: yes

Philadelphia Register of Historic Places:Philadelphia Register (10/26/1971)

National Register of Historic Places:National Register (8/7/1998)

Listed in PHMC Cultural Resources Database:yes