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]
St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery | |
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| Location | SR 1183, near Tyro, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°49′00″N 80°22′30″W / 35.81667°N 80.37500°W |
| Area | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
| Built by | Hege, H. J. |
| MPS | Anglo-German Cemeteries TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002147[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. July 9, 2010.
- ^ 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 2014-10-01.
