Bethany Reformed and Lutheran Church Cemetery explained

Bethany United Church of Christ, formerly Bethany Reformed and Lutheran Church Cemetery
Location:SR 1716, near Midway, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.9578°N -80.1639°W
Added:July 10, 1984
Area:2acres
Refnum:84001994

Bethany United Church of Christ Cemetery is a historic church cemetery formerly known as Bethany Reformed and Lutheran Church near Midway, Davidson County, North Carolina. It contains approximately 400 gravestones, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1781. 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. Bethany Reformed and Lutheran Church Cemetery . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . July 1983. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-10-01.