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]
Waggoner Graveyard | |
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| Location | SR 1814, near Welcome, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°55′21″N 80°11′46″W / 35.92250°N 80.19611°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| MPS | Anglo-German Cemeteries TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002158[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 (August 1983). "Waggoner Graveyard" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.