Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery explained

Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:December 4, 2002[1]
Designated Other1 Number:026-0111
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Location:VA 40, Darvills, Virginia
Coordinates:37.0725°N -77.8614°W
Architect:Atkinson, William Randolph
Architecture:Gothic Revival
Added:April 11, 2003
Refnum:03000213

Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery is a historic Methodist church and cemetery located near Darvills, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was built in 1866–1867, and is a one-story, frame building in the Carpenter Gothic style. It measures approximately 34 feet wide and 45 feet long, and features board and batten siding and concave gingerbread trim. Surrounding the church are approximately nine additional acres to which about 1,000 graves were moved from cemeteries that had to be abandoned when the 48,000-acre Camp Pickett Military Reservation was created at the beginning of World War II.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm. 21 September 2013. dead.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery . John C. Moody Sr. February 2002. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying five photos