Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery located on SR 1272 in Linwood, Davidson County, North Carolina. The church was founded in 1755, and the current Jersey Settlement Meeting House was built nearby in 1842. The cemetery contains approximately 50 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1772. 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]
Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery | |
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Location | SR 1272, Linwood, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°43′57″N 80°18′43″W / 35.73250°N 80.31194°W |
Area | 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) |
Built | 1755 |
Architect | Multiple |
MPS | Anglo-German Cemeteries TR |
NRHP reference No. | 84002027[1] |
Added to NRHP | July 10, 1984 |
The cemetery was added to 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 (July 1983). "Jersey Baptist Church Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.