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Weeding at Fair Hill

This is the season of spooky visits to grave yards, but Fair Hill is, as always, a little different. Philadelphia has a number of fascinating burial grounds, filled with the the famous, the infamous, the remembered and the forgotten. Fair Hill’s history dates to the late 1600s, originally a gift from George Fox to the Quakers for a quiet place to bury the dead.

Best remembered as the final home to many of the leading lights in the Abolitionist Movement, including Lucretia Mott, Fair Hill has been brought back from being a blight on the neighborhood to being the center of the community, a visual gem that also hosts summer time agricultural programs that truly engage the local youth.

Saturday, October 17th, from 10 to 1, people are coming out for the annual Fall clean up day. Bring your gardening or work gloves and join in, as much as anything to celebrate and experience something wonderful in its simplicity and its success. Check out some photos of the burial ground here, on Flickr.

Fair Hill Burial Ground
2900 Block on Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19133
www.fairhillburial.org