Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery

Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery
Location SR 2250, near Silver Hill, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°45′29″N 80°13′33″W / 35.75806°N 80.22583°W / 35.75806; -80.22583Coordinates: 35°45′29″N 80°13′33″W / 35.75806°N 80.22583°W / 35.75806; -80.22583
Area 2.5 acres (1.0 ha)
MPS Anglo-German Cemeteries TR
NRHP Reference # 84001992[1]
Added to NRHP July 10, 1984

Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery located near Silver Hill, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 100 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1771. It is associated with the Beck's Lutheran and Reformed Church, founded in 1787. 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 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Ruth Little (June 1983). "Beck's Reformed 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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