Quaker Meadows Cemetery Explained

Quaker Meadows Cemetery
Coordinates:35.7517°N -81.7217°W
Added:November 9, 1987
Refnum:87001922

Quaker Meadows Cemetery is a historic cemetery located near Morganton, North Carolina, U.S.. It includes 59 gravesites dated between 1767 and 1879; 53 of them are marked by gravestones. The earliest grave is of David McDowell (1767), the two-year-old grandson of Joseph McDowell, the first permanent white settler in the area.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Suzanne Pickens Wylie. Quaker Meadows Cemetery. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . July 1986. pdf . North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-08-01.