Fairview Cemetery (Amsterdam, New York)
- Fairview Cemetery (Amsterdam, New York)
Fairview Cemetery in Amsterdam, New York, holds the remains of many members of Amsterdam's old wealthy carpet manufacturing families as well as middle Americans.
A surgeon of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America, built a farm house on a large plot of land between Amsterdam, New York and Fort Johnson, New York in the 1700s. In the late 1800s a group of people decided to make a resort of this farm. When many of the financial backers of this plan turned against it, they decided to make the farmland into a cemetery.
The first burial in the cemetery occurred in 1899. Many people's remains were moved to Fairview from other cemeteries after it opened. The fourth burial in the cemetery was of John Kilts, who died in 1890.
In 1985, there were more than 6000 burials in the cemetery.
Fairview is still in operation today.
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