SR 1183, Tyro, North Carolina. County/parish: Davidson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 10, 1984. NRIS 84002147.
Part of Anglo-German Cemeteries TR (NRIS 64000444).
1 contributing site.Also known as:
St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery, also known as Sandy Creek Cemetery, is a historic church cemetery located near Tyro, Davidson County, North Carolina. It is associated with the St. Luke's Lutheran Church, founded in 1790 as Swicegood Meeting House. It contains approximately 300 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1804. 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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717665