Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery Explained

Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery
Location:SR 2250, Lexington, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.7578°N -80.2256°W
Added:July 10, 1984
Refnum:84001992

Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery (also known as Becks United Church of Christ Cemetery) is a historic church cemetery located in Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 100 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1771. It is associated with the Beck's Lutheran and Reformed Church, founded in 1787. 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.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ruth Little. Beck's Reformed Church Cemetery . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . June 1983. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-10-01.