Quaker Meadows Cemetery


Quaker Meadows Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Off NC 126, Morganton, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°45′6″N 81°43′18″W / 35.75167°N 81.72167°W / 35.75167; -81.72167Coordinates: 35°45′6″N 81°43′18″W / 35.75167°N 81.72167°W / 35.75167; -81.72167
Area	0.8 acres (0.32 ha)
Built	1767 (1767)
MPS	Morganton MRA
NRHP Reference #	87001922^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 9, 1987

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.^[2]

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

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ 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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