Fairview Park in Cuyahoga County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Rockport Cemetery of Pioneer Days

Now Fairview Park Cemetery

Photographed by Kate McNeece

1. Rockport Cemetery of Pioneer Days - Now Fairview Park Cemetery Marker

Inscription. [Main Marker]:
Here rest early settlers of this area of old Rockport Township, soldiers of the American Revolution and of four succeeding wars. Dates of first burials have been lost to memory in their antiquity.

[Top of two nearby secondary markers]: Designated Historical Landmark
City of Fairview Park
Ordinance No. 80-62
May 31, 1982
[Bottom of two nearby secondary markers]:
In Grateful Memory of Jared A. Farrand, Robert B. Fife, Josiah Kellog, and Robert Wood, Soldiers of the American Revolution who rest here. In these bicentennial years, we commemorate their great contribution to the world.
Fairview Park Historical Society - 1975.

Erected 1961 by Fairview Park Historical Society.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Cemeteries & Burial Sites. A significant historical month for this entry is May 1969.

Location. 41° 27.087′ N, 81° 50.176′ W. Marker is in Fairview Park, Ohio, in Cuyahoga County. It is on Lorain Road (Ohio Route 10) just east of West 196th Street. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Cleveland OH 44126, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Greater Cleveland,

on the Lake Erie Shore,

and in the Western Reserve.

It is also in the American Midwest

and on the Great Lakes.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Bain Park Cabin (approx. 1.2 miles away); Puritas Springs Park / The Cyclone Roller Coaster

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(approx. 1.2 miles away); a different marker also named Bain Park Cabin (approx. 1.2 miles away); Detroit Avenue Bridge (approx. 2.2 miles away); Cowan Pottery (approx. 2.2 miles away); A Modern-Day Exodus (approx. 2.3 miles away); Site of Colonel John Bradstreet's Disaster (approx. 2.6 miles away); Clague Family Homestead (approx. 2.6 miles away).

More about this marker. Coordinates are approximate.

Also see . . . Silent Witnesses to the Civil War, Part 2: Rockport Pioneer Cemetery. Cleveland Civil War Roundtable website entry (Submitted on December 28, 2025, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)

Additional keywords. Revolutionary War

Two Secondary Markers image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Kate McNeece

2. Two Secondary Markers

FairviewParkCemetery.org image. Click for full size.

Chris H. Gerrett, with permission, August 1, 2008

3. FairviewParkCemetery.org

Historic Markers

Fairview Park Cemetery sign image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Kate McNeece

4. Fairview Park Cemetery sign

Just one view of Fairview Park (Rockport) Cemetery image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Paul Guinaugh, 2010

5. Just one view of Fairview Park (Rockport) Cemetery

Credits. This page was last revised on December 28, 2025. It was originally submitted on September 17, 2008, by Kate McNeece of Fairview Park, Ohio. This page has been viewed 2,794 times since then and 22 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on September 17, 2008, by Kate McNeece of Fairview Park, Ohio. 3. submitted on December 3, 2011, by Chris H. Gerrett of Fairview Park, Ohio. 4. submitted on September 17, 2008, by Kate McNeece of Fairview Park, Ohio. 5. submitted on August 18, 2011, by Sharon Guinaugh of Fairview Park, Ohio. • Kevin W. was the editor who published this page.

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