Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery associated with the Fair Grove Methodist Church at Thomasville, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 400 gravestones, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1829. 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 | Jct. of SR 2072 and 2070 and old NC 109, Thomasville, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°51′5″N 80°4′42″W / 35.85139°N 80.07833°W |
| Area | 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) |
| MPS | Anglo-German Cemeteries TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002004[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 10, 1984 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
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The associated church
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Ruth Little (July 1983). "Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
