Kitty Foster Cemetery
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Kitty Foster Cemetery

Charlottesville, Charlottesville City, Virginia, USA

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    Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 United States
    Coordinates: 38.03149, -78.50459
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Catherine "Kitty" Foster's home was located across from the University of Virginia in a community of free blacks called Canada. Foster (born between 1790 and 1795) purchased land in Canada in 1833; her descendants owned the land until 1906. A clause in one of the deeds reserved the right to relocate the family cemetery from the property, but that apparently was never done. The graves were eventually covered over and forgotten until their rediscovery in 1993 during the construction of a new parking lot. A total of 32 graves have been located; most have been left undisturbed and comprise part of a newly designed memorial to the family.
The unmarked remains of a coffin were discovered during an excavation in 1993. Subsequent archaeological investigations located 31 more unmarked gravesites, evidence of a cemetery that served a 19th- and early 20th-century community of free blacks and whites.
Catherine "Kitty" Foster's home was located across from the University of Virginia in a community of free blacks called Canada. Foster (born between 1790 and 1795) purchased land in Canada in 1833; her descendants owned the land until 1906. A clause in one of the deeds reserved the right to relocate the family cemetery from the property, but that apparently was never done. The graves were eventually covered over and forgotten until their rediscovery in 1993 during the construction of a new parking lot. A total of 32 graves have been located; most have been left undisturbed and comprise part of a newly designed memorial to the family.
The unmarked remains of a coffin were discovered during an excavation in 1993. Subsequent archaeological investigations located 31 more unmarked gravesites, evidence of a cemetery that served a 19th- and early 20th-century community of free blacks and whites.

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  • Added: 26 Dec 2018
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