Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery

Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery located near Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It is associated with the Pilgrim Reformed Church, founded about 1757 By a man of the name Valentine Leonhardt. It contains approximately 350 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1781. It features a unique collection of folk gravestones by local stone cutters erected in Davidson County in the late-18th and first half of the 19th centuries.[2] The church was the first Pilgrim church in North Carolina.

Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery
Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery is located in North Carolina
Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery
Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery is located in the United States
Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery
LocationSR 1843, near Lexington, North Carolina
Coordinates35°51′10″N 80°13′3″W / 35.85278°N 80.21750°W / 35.85278; -80.21750
Area3 acres (1.2 ha)
ArchitectMultiple
MPSAnglo-German Cemeteries TR
NRHP reference No.84002145[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 10, 1984

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

References

edit
  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Ruth Little (July 1983). "Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.
edit