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This list of cemeteries in the U.S. state of North Carolina includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
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Old Settlers' Cemetery is a city-owned cemetery located at 200 West 5th Street, right in the middle of Charlotte, North Carolina.It was the first municipal burial ground in Charlotte and contains the graves of many early settlers, with gravesites dating from 1776 through 1884. [1]
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 ...
Content related to cemeteries located in the U. S. State of North Carolina which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (the United States' official national heritage register) and other listed properties that include places of interment: graveyards, burial plots, crypts, mausoleums, or tombs. Some cemeteries may be components ...
Old White Church Cemetery, also known as Emanuel Church Cemetery, is a historic cemetery and national historic district located at Lincolnton, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was established in 1788, and contains the marked graves of some 265 citizens of Lincolnton, with an even larger number of unmarked graves.
Cornelia Deaderick Glenn (1854–1926), First Lady of North Carolina; Robert Broadnax Glenn (1854–1920), Governor of North Carolina; Margaret Nowell Graham (1867–1942), artist; Gordon Gray (1909–1982), American politician, U.S National Security Advisor [1] John Wesley Hanes (1850–1903), businessman
Faison Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at Faison, Duplin County, North Carolina. The cemetery includes approximately 320 marked graves with the oldest dating to 1788. The cemetery began as the Faison family burial ground and officially became the community cemetery for the white population in 1892. [2]