Fair Hill Burial

- Visit Historic Fair Hill -

We encourage you to visit this beautiful site on a work day, a special event, or by reservation.

Tours are given for descendants, school groups, others interested in Quaker history, Underground Railroad/Abolition, and women's history.

- Summer Hours -

Starting Saturday, May 31, 2008, we will be open every Saturday from 12-3 and on Sundays from 3-6

- Community Days 2008 -

July 19 - Summer Festival
October 19 - Fall Clean-Up

We welcome volunteers to help with community projects and to work on the site. We are open the second Saturday of April, July and October from 10am-1pm and Sunday afternoons June-October. 3-6. Bring groups and tools to to pick up trash, work on the flower beds and vegetable gardens, mulch and compost, and return displaced stones to their rightful places.

Historic Fair Hill is a 300 year old Quaker burial ground where many who worked to end slavery and promote equality are buried. This National Historic Site on the Underground Railroad Network is located at the 2900 block of Germantown Ave in North Philadelphia.

OPERATING HOURS: We are open on Sundays, 3-6, from June to October. Other times by appointment by calling Gerry Fisher at (610) 639-7859.

The Fair Hill Burial Ground, established in 1703, is a national historic site where are buried great reformers, including Lucretia and James Mott and Robert and Harriet Purvis. The historic site at 9th and Cambria in north Philadelphia is under the care of the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting and is supported by an active group of volunteers.

History
The Fair Hill Burial Ground was part of a tract of 16 acres, given by William Penn to George Fox, founder of Quakerism, who left it to Quakers for a meeting house, a burying ground and a school. The present burial ground was laid out in 1843, enlarged in 1854, providing almost 5 acres of open green space in this urban neighborhood.

Most of the persons buried at Fair Hill are Quakers, many of them participants in the early abolitionist and women's rights movements. Some of the more renowned include Lucretia Mott, James Mott, Thomas and Mary Ann McClintock, Sarah Pugh, Ann Preston and Edward Parrish. Some colleagues in the anti-slavery movement, not Friends, are also buried there, most notably Robert Purvis, an African-American known as the President of the underground railroad, and his family.

Fair Hill Burial Ground
Mission Statement

Our mission is to restore and preserve the Fair Hill Burial Ground:
• As a green space that is a source of peacefulness in an urban neighborhood
• As part of Quaker history in Philadelphia
• As a contribution to the restoration of its neighborhood
• And as an opportunity for the living to carry forward the cause of equality of all people, which was the life work of many now buried there.

Donate
Please remember us in your will.

Send your tax-deductible donations to:

Fair Hill Burial Ground Corporation
c/o Baird Brown
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP
1735 Market Street, 51st Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-7599

Gifts of securities are welcome. Call Gerry Fisher at (610) 639-7859 for more information.

Our Community
A group of Quakers and community members formed a corporation to purchase the burial ground in 1993 and have ever since been restoring it to its original beauty with the help of many neighbors and friends. Some of the Quaker meetings and other organizations involved in this project involve:

Abington Friends Meeting
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Philadelphia Quarter
Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (Cherry Street)
Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting
Crosswicks Friends Meeting
Frankford Monthly Meeting
Germantown Monthly Meeting
Green Street Monthly Meeting
Williston Friends Meeting
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Arch Street)

Advocates for West Fairhill
Fairhill Friends Ministry
Fairhill Elementary School
Hannah House
Philadelphia Mural Arts Project
Julia de Burgos Middle School
St. Marks Outreach Baptist Church
Village of Arts and Humanities
Woman's Community Revitalization Project

Directions to Fair Hill Burial Ground

FHBG is five acres bordered by the 2900 block of Germantown Ave, Cambria, 9^th and Indiana in north Philadelphia. It is north of Lehigh Ave. south of Allegheny about a mile from Temple University,. You can mapquest it at the St. Mark address, 924 Cambria St. 19133.