Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery (also known as Becks United Church of Christ Cemetery) is a historic church cemetery located in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 100 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1771. It is associated with the Beck's Lutheran and Reformed Church, founded in 1787. 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]
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| Location | SR 2250, Lexington, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°45′28″N 80°13′32″W / 35.75778°N 80.22556°W |
| Area | 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) |
| MPS | Anglo-German Cemeteries TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 84001992[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 10, 1984 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Ruth Little (June 1983). "Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
