Place:Fairview Cemetery, Frederick, Maryland, United States

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NameFairview Cemetery
TypeCemetery
Coordinates39.4225°N 77.3911°E
Located inFrederick, Maryland, United States     (c. 1920 - )
Also located inFrederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States    

Fairview Cemetery is the largest African American cemetery in Frederick County, Maryland.(Goldberg 2014) It was established in the 1920s when "hundreds of graves" were relocated from Greenmount Cemetery upon expansion of Frederick Hospital, which had purchased the land which included Greenmount Cemetery.(Fifield 2014) Greenmount Cemetery was "a black cemetery, (was) located near the southern corner of Fairview Avenue and Seventh Street from the late 1800s".(Fifield 2014)

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The coordinates provided (39.4225 N by 77.3911 E) are based on the GNIS-feature import to OpenStreetMap. The GNIS record (Feature 1711987) shows a location of 39.4228799 N by 77.3908183 E.

The cemetery is located on East Church Street (Find A Grave places it at 680 East Church Street), about 0.4 miles south of Monocacy Boulevard and 0.4 miles north of East 5th Street; Fairview Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland at OpenStreetMap.