Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery

Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery
Location SR 1272, Linwood, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°43′57″N 80°18′43″W / 35.73250°N 80.31194°W / 35.73250; -80.31194Coordinates: 35°43′57″N 80°18′43″W / 35.73250°N 80.31194°W / 35.73250; -80.31194
Area 3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built 1755
Architect Multiple
MPS Anglo-German Cemeteries TR
NRHP reference # 84002027[1]
Added to NRHP July 10, 1984

Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery located on SR 1272 in Linwood, Davidson County, North Carolina. The church was founded in 1755, and the current Jersey Settlement Meeting House was built nearby in 1842. The cemetery contains approximately 50 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1772. It features a unique collection of folk gravestones by local stonecutters erected in Davidson County in the late-18th and first half of the 19th centuries.[2]

The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Ruth Little (July 1983). "Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.


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