Quaker Meadows Cemetery

Historic cemetery in North Carolina, United States

United States historic place


Quaker Meadows Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Main entrance
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 No.	87001922^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 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.^{[clarification needed]}^[2]

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

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ 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.