Fairview Cemetery
Pampa, Gray County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Fairview Cemetery Established 1904 Historic Texas Cemetery - 2004
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Fairview Cemetery was established in 1904 in Pampa, a young community on the Texas Panhandle plains that grew in the era when railroads and homesteaders were settling the region's open grasslands. Designated a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2004, its grounds hold generations of the area's early families. The burial ground remains a tangible link to Pampa's founding decades.
Why it matters
As one of Pampa's oldest institutions, the cemetery grounds the town's identity in the wave of early-twentieth-century settlement that populated the last open stretches of the Texas Panhandle.
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