Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery
Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery located near Welcome, Davidson County, North Carolina. It is associated with the Good Hope Methodist Church, founded about 1836. It contains approximately 350 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1834. 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]
Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery | |
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| Location | Junction of NC 150 and SR 1445, near Welcome, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°55′45″N 80°20′11″W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| MPS | Anglo-German Cemeteries TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002007[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 10, 1984 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- Ruth Little (July 1983). "Good Hope 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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