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St. Mary's Cemetery (Lawrence County, Tennessee)

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NRHP Reference #
  
84000095

Area
  
400 m²

Added to NRHP
  
10 October 1984

Address
  
Loretto, TN 38469, USA

Year built
  
1872

St. Mary's Cemetery (Lawrence County, Tennessee)

MPS
  
German Catholic Churches and Cemeteries of Lawrence County TR

St. Mary's Cemetery is a historic Roman Catholic cemetery in Lawrence County, Tennessee, United States, located off Rascal Town Road, 5 miles (8.0 km) southeast of St. Joseph. The cemetery contains about 20 19th-century monuments and was still being used for burials as of the late 20th century. The cemetery and its white iron gate are the only remaining physical evidence of the 19th-century German Catholic settlement of St. Mary's. A number of the 19th-century monuments in the cemetery have German-language inscriptions. A small log church was built at the site in 1872 but was no longer standing as of 1984, when the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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St. Mary's Cemetery (Lawrence County, Tennessee) Wikipedia