Emanuel United Church of Christ Cemetery

Emanuel United Church of Christ Cemetery
Location SR 2060, near Thomasville, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°50′34″N 80°6′56″W / 35.84278°N 80.11556°W / 35.84278; -80.11556Coordinates: 35°50′34″N 80°6′56″W / 35.84278°N 80.11556°W / 35.84278; -80.11556
Area 2 acres (0.81 ha)
MPS Anglo-German Cemeteries TR
NRHP Reference # 84001997[1]
Added to NRHP July 10, 1984

Emanuel United Church of Christ Cemetery is a historic church cemetery associated with the Emanuel United Church of Christ near Thomasville, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 500 gravestones, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1808. 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]

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

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Ruth Little (July 1983). "Emanuel United Church of Christ Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.


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