Date: October 20, 2000
Cemetery: Thompson/Kidwell Cemetery
Street: Fox Mill Road
City: Reston
County: Fairfax
State: VA
Nation: USA
Zip:
Nearby: Fox Mill Park
Land Type: Public
Status: Abandoned
Accessible: Yes
Unmarked graves: Yes
Graves within: 24
Oldest grave:
Newest grave:
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Unsure
Records location:
Owner:
http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/dta/re/detail.asp?mapid=0361*01**0026A
Condition: Cemetery vandalized
Removed Headstones
Broken Headstones
Buried Headstones
Disintegrating Headstones
Fallen Headstones
Previous contacts:
Work_Status: Unknown
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There is a nearly forgotten cemetery on the grounds of The Fox Mill
Park in Reston, Fairfax County, Virginia. The entrance to the park is
on Fox Mill Road about a mile south of the intersection of Reston
Parkway and Lawyers Road. The cemetery is in the wooded area that is
directly across from the soccer/football field. It is short distance
down a park footpath and is surrounded by a recently erected wooden
fence. In addition to severe weathering, the cemetery was terribly
vandalized at one time. All the slate grave markers were knocked down
and all are broken. There is evidence that there were some carved
headstones, there is at least one headstone base and some small,
scattered stone pieces, but there are no carved intact or broken
pieces of headstones within the cemetery or the immediate surrounding
area. After a respectful examination of the slate marker pieces (I
tried to disturb them as little as possible) it appear that they may
have been painted with names and possibly other information. None
could be read at all. I did find two stone pieces that were clearly
carved with the initials: JFG and MAB. It appears, from the scattered
slate and stone pieces and some ground depressions, that there may
have been about, but no more than, 24 grave sites. This is a very,
very rough estimate. The cemetery is lacking any name information and
therefore I have named it The Fox Mill Park Cemetery. Should I
discover the proper name, I will send that information at a later
date. Rich Agule October 10, 2000
Additional Information: http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/virginia/varoom/cem/cem123.htm
Submitted by / Contact for additional Information:
name: Rich Agule
Email: RichAgule@Yahoo.com
