Waggoner Graveyard

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Waggoner Graveyard
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LocationSR 1814, near Welcome, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°55′21″N80°11′46″W / 35.92250°N 80.19611°W / 35.92250; -80.19611 Coordinates: 35°55′21″N80°11′46″W / 35.92250°N 80.19611°W / 35.92250; -80.19611
Arealess than one acre
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NRHP reference No. 84002158 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  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.