Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery


Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	SR 1843, near Lexington, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°51′10″N 80°13′3″W / 35.85278°N 80.21750°W / 35.85278; -80.21750Coordinates: 35°51′10″N 80°13′3″W / 35.85278°N 80.21750°W / 35.85278; -80.21750
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
MPS	Anglo-German Cemeteries TR
NRHP Reference #	84002145^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 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 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ 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.

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