St. John's Lutheran Cemetery

St John's Lutheran Cemetery is a historic Lutheran cemetery on Upper Tug Fork Rd. near Alexandria, Kentucky. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

St John's Lutheran Cemetery
St. John's Lutheran Cemetery is located in Kentucky
St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
St. John's Lutheran Cemetery is located in the United States
St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
LocationUpper Tug Fork Rd., near Alexandria, Kentucky
Coordinates39°0′51″N 84°22′58″W / 39.01417°N 84.38278°W / 39.01417; -84.38278
Area1.4 acres (0.57 ha)
MPSGerman Settlement, Four Mile Creek Area TR
NRHP reference No.83002617[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 9, 1983

It is the cemetery of the St. John's Lutheran Church, which was established in 1860 and served German Lutherans in both in its Campbell County, Kentucky area and in southern Ohio.[2]

The cemetery was deemed "significant as a place of interment for local German Protestants. It also contains a unique instance of German funerary folk art."[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: German Settlement Properties of Campbell County, Kentucky" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 25, 2018. With photos.
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