Wolf Run Shoals Slave Cemetery

Here follows an excerpt from the Fairfax Genealogical Society website:

UNNAMED CEMETERIES - WOLF RUN SHOALS ROAD
Wolf Run Shoals Road
Clifton, Virginia USA

Original Information from Volume 2 of the Gravestone Books

Several grave-sized depressions have been located in a wooded area ten feet south of Henderson Road (Route 643) and 300 feet west of the western intersection of Henderson and Wolf Run Shoals Road (Route 610), Clifton. There are depressions, but no gravestones in the 30-foot square area which is covered with periwinkle.

Two unnamed cemeteries have been reported in Fountainhead Regional Park at the end of Wolf Run Shoals Road. One site which is considered to be a slave cemetery has been located about 800 feet south/southwest of the dead end of the road and just east of the trail that leads into the park. A survey conducted by Brian Conley of the Fairfax City Regional Library on 25 April 1994 noted a small patch of periwinkle and an uprooted fieldstone which had been set in cement in this wooded area.

On 26 August 1994, Mr. Conley located a small cemetery about 1400 feet from the dead end of Wolf Run Shoals Road on a peninsula in the park. Evidence of at least ten burials, several marked by fieldstones, were found at the heavily wooded site. The 1878 Hopkins map shows the residence of L. Hickey in this area which was known as Ford’s Mill at the time of the Civil War.

No Updates from Volume 6 of the Gravestone Books