The vestry of Augusta Parish purchased two hundred acres here in 1749 to serve as a glebe, farmland set aside to support the minister. Just to the southwest, on a portion of this property, the parish established the first public cemetery in the vicinity. Grave markers reflect English, German, and Scots-Irish funerary art traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries. Buried here are several Revolutionary War soldiers and Col. John Wilson, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1748 to 1773. Also interred here are at least three settlers killed by Shawnee Indians in attacks during Pontiac's War (1763-1766). The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.