St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery

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St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery
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LocationSR 1183, near Tyro, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°49′00″N80°22′30″W / 35.81667°N 80.37500°W / 35.81667; -80.37500
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built byHege, H. J.
MPS Anglo-German Cemeteries TR
NRHP reference No. 84002147 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 10, 1984

St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery, also known as Sandy Creek Cemetery, is a historic church cemetery located near Tyro, Davidson County, North Carolina. It is associated with the St. Luke's Lutheran Church, founded in 1790 as Swicegood Meeting House. It contains approximately 300 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1804. 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 Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ Ruth Little (July 1983). "St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
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