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The Jermantown Cemetery is the only known black cemetery in the City of Fairfax, Virginia. It was established in 1868 for black Fairfax residents that were not allowed to be buried in the Fairfax Cemetery. It continued to be used until 1980 by black residents. The land was purchased by trustees for the Burial Sons and Daughters of Benelvolence of Fairfax Court House, and was maintained by the until their deaths. Since they did not name successors, the City of Fairfax took over management of the cemetery.

In 1989, the city commissioned a survey of the cemetery, which found over 40 headstones. There are also an unknown number of unmarked graves.

Fairfax County used the cemetery to bury unclaimed bodies up until the 1990's, when space ran out.