Waggoner Graveyard

Waggoner Graveyard
Location SR 1814, near Welcome, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°55′21″N 80°11′46″W / 35.92250°N 80.19611°W / 35.92250; -80.19611Coordinates: 35°55′21″N 80°11′46″W / 35.92250°N 80.19611°W / 35.92250; -80.19611
Area less than one acre
MPS Anglo-German Cemeteries TR
NRHP reference # 84002158[1]
Added to NRHP July 10, 1984

Waggoner Graveyard is a historic family cemetery located near Welcome, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 15 gravestones, with the earliest dated to 1820. Burials continued into the early-20th century. 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]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Ruth Little (August 1983). "Waggoner Graveyard" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.


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