St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery Explained

St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery
Location:SR 1183, near Tyro, North Carolina
Coordinates:35.8167°N -80.375°W
Builder:Hege, H. J.
Added:July 10, 1984
Refnum:84002147

St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery, also known as Sandy Creek Cemetery, is a historic church cemetery located near Tyro, Davidson County, North Carolina. It is associated with the St. Luke's Lutheran Church, founded in 1790 as Swicegood Meeting House. It contains approximately 300 burials, with the earliest gravestone dated to 1804. 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. St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery . National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . July 1983. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2014-10-01.