Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery

Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery
LocationJct. of SR 2072 and 2070 and old NC 109, Thomasville, North Carolina
Coordinates35°51′5″N 80°4′42″W / 35.85139°N 80.07833°W / 35.85139; -80.07833
Area2.5 acres (1.0 ha)
MPSAnglo-German Cemeteries TR
NRHP reference No.84002004[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 10, 1984

Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery associated with the Fair Grove Methodist Church at Thomasville, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 400 gravestones, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1829. 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. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Ruth Little (July 1983). "Fair Grove Methodist Church Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved October 1, 2014.