Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery

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]

Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery
Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery is located in North Carolina
Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery
Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery is located in the United States
Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery
LocationJct. of SR 2072 and 2070 and old NC 109, Thomasville, North Carolina
Coordinates35°51′5″N 80°4′42″W / 35.85139°N 80.07833°W / 35.85139; -80.07833
Area2.5 acres (1.0 ha)
MPSAnglo-German Cemeteries TR
NRHP reference No.84002004[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 10, 1984

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ 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.
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