This quiet cemetery is on a commanding rise at the northeast end of the village of Waterford in Loudoun County Virginia. The graveyard takes its name not from the Civil War, but rather from its use by a "union" of Waterford churches.

Since the early 1800s, the Union of Churches Cemetery has served all Waterford denominations (albeit segregated into black and white sections), other than the Quakers — whose burying ground adjoins Fairfax Meetinghouse. Both Union and Confederate veterans lie here.

The Waterford cemetery is now managed as a nonprofit organization with the mission to preserve the cemetery and its history.