SR 1843, Lexington, North Carolina. County/parish: Davidson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 10, 1984. NRIS 84002145.
Part of Anglo-German Cemeteries TR (NRIS 64000444).
1 contributing site.Also known as:
Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery located near Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It is associated with Pilgrim Reformed Church, founded about 1757 by a man of the name Valentine Leonhardt. The cemetery contains approximately 350 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1781. It features a unique collection of folk gravestones crafted by local stonecutters, erected in Davidson County in the late 18th and first half of the 19th centuries. The church was the first Pilgrim church in North Carolina.
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717663