MPS Morganton MRA Area 3,200 m² Added to NRHP 9 November 1987 | NRHP Reference # 87001922 Year built 1767 | |
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Location Off NC 126, Morganton, North Carolina | ||
Memorial service for revolutionary war patriots at the quaker meadows cemetery
Quaker Meadows Cemetery is a historic cemetery located near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. 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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
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