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Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery

Coordinates: 35°55′45″N 80°20′11″W / 35.92917°N 80.33639°W / 35.92917; -80.33639
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Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery
Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery is located in North Carolina
Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery
Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery is located in the United States
Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery
LocationJunction of NC 150 and SR 1445, near Welcome, North Carolina
Coordinates35°55′45″N 80°20′11″W / 35.92917°N 80.33639°W / 35.92917; -80.33639
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
MPSAnglo-German Cemeteries TR
NRHP reference No.84002007[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 10, 1984

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.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Ruth Little (July 1983). "Good Hope Methodist Church Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-10-01.