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Historic cemetery in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place
Methodist Church Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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LocationWestern corner of the junction of S. Aspen and W. Congress Sts., Lincolnton, North Carolina
Coordinates35°28′4″N 81°15′23″W / 35.46778°N 81.25639°W / 35.46778; -81.25639
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built1828 (1828)
MPSChurches and Church-Related Cemeteries in Lincolnton MPS
NRHP reference No.94001458
Added to NRHPDecember 14, 1994

Methodist Church Cemetery is a historic Methodist cemetery and national historic district located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was established about 1828, and contains the marked graves of some 275 members of the Methodist church, or citizens of Lincolnton. The gravestones include notable examples of 19th and early-20th century funerary art. The property was also the site of Lincolnton's Methodist churches and religious worship from about 1822 until 1920.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Davyd Foard Hood (July 1994). "Methodist Church Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved January 1, 2015.

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U.S. National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
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