Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery Explained

Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery
Location:Junction of NC 150 and SR 1445, near Welcome, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.9292°N -80.3364°W
Added:July 10, 1984
Refnum:84002007

Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery located near Welcome, Davidson County, North Carolina. It is associated with the Good Hope Methodist Church, founded about 1836. It contains approximately 350 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1834. 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. Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery . National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory . July 1983. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-10-01.