Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery

Historic cemetery in North Carolina, United States
United States historic place
Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery
35°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

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.

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

References

  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.
  • Old Pilgrim Reformed Cemetery, a.k.a. Old Pilgrim Slave Cemetery, Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery – Section 8 at Find a Grave
  • Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery at Find a Grave
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