St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery


St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	SR 1183, near Tyro, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°49′0″N 80°22′32″W / 35.81667°N 80.37556°W / 35.81667; -80.37556Coordinates: 35°49′0″N 80°22′32″W / 35.81667°N 80.37556°W / 35.81667; -80.37556
Area	1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built by	Hege,H. J.
MPS	Anglo-German Cemeteries TR
NRHP Reference #	84002147^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 10, 1984

St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery, also known as Sandy Springs 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 Sandy Creek Lutheran Church. 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.^[2]

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). "St. Luke's Lutheran 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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