Quaker Meadows Cemetery
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Quaker Meadows Cemetery is located in North Carolina
Quaker Meadows Cemetery
Quaker Meadows Cemetery is located in the United States
Quaker Meadows Cemetery
LocationOff NC 126, Morganton, North Carolina
Coordinates35°45′6″N 81°43′18″W / 35.75167°N 81.72167°W / 35.75167; -81.72167
Area0.8 acres (0.32 ha)
Built1767 (1767)
MPSMorganton MRA
NRHP reference No.87001922[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 9, 1987

Quaker Meadows Cemetery is a historic cemetery located near Morganton, North Carolina, U.S.. 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.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Suzanne Pickens Wylie (July 1986). "Quaker Meadows Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
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