Details for Fairview Cemetery

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5507017637

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Marker Number 17637
Atlas Number 5507017637
Marker Title Fairview Cemetery
Index Entry Fairview Cemetery
Address
City League City
County Galveston
UTM Zone
UTM Easting
UTM Northing
Subject Codes cemetery
Marker Year 2013
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location N. Kansas Street at 7th Street
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 18" x 28" with post
Marker Text Five-month-old Victor Nordhem was laid to rest in February 1900, on land bought by Alison J. Adams for an individual burial plot. In 1908, Adams deeded additional acreage to the Fairview Cemetery Association. Decoration Day, later Memorial Day, was a day for grave decoration, music, speeches and activities. More than 1200 marked and unmarked burials have been recorded. Features include markers made of concrete, marble, granite and cypress wood. Dozens of military veterans are interred here, as well as settlers and descendants from the Japanese Colony begun at Webster in 1903. The cemetery conveys many diverse and interesting stories of the past.

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