Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery | |
Location: | SR 1843, near Lexington, North Carolina |
Coordinates: | 35.8528°N -80.2175°W |
Architect: | Multiple |
Added: | July 10, 1984 |
Refnum: | 84002145 |
Pilgrim Reformed Church Cemetery is a historic church cemetery located near Lexington, Davidson County, North Carolina. It is associated with the Pilgrim Reformed Church, founded about 1757 By a man of the name Valentine Leonhardt. It contains approximately 350 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1781. It features a unique collection of folk gravestones by local stone cutters erected in Davidson County in the late-18th and first half of the 19th centuries.[1] The church was the first Pilgrim church in North Carolina.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.