Fawn A.M.E. Zion Church Cemetery

In 1849, Edward Harris, Abraham Barton and George Boyd, trustees of Fawn A.M.E.Z. Church, paid $5.00 to James Wiley for the purchase of 70 perches of land in rural Fawn Township, York County, PA to use as a "site for building a house for public worship by a body of professing Christians known to each other by the name African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in America." The congregation came together and built a log structure that lasted for 100 years.

A cemetery was created on the grounds and 18 Civil War veterans lay to rest in its folds, including John Aquilla Wilson, who passed away in 1942 at the age of 101.  "Quil" as he was known, was the last surviving Black Civil War veteran, and according to Scott Mingus, he was of the youngest men to fight the confederates in the Gettysburg Campaign. 

The congregation outgrew the church and in 1954, the original structure was torn down and built a larger structure at the end of the property. Still standing and functioning, the church was rededicated in 2017, and is one of two Black congregations worshiping in southeastern York County today.