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St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery

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Built by
  
Hege,H. J.

Area
  
6,100 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
84002147

Added to NRHP
  
10 July 1984

St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery

Location
  
SR 1183, near Tyro, North Carolina

MPS
  
Anglo-German Cemeteries TR

St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery, also known as Sandy Springs 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 Sandy Creek Lutheran Church. 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.

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

References

St. Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery Wikipedia