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


St. Mary's Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Show map of Tennessee Show map of the US
Coordinates	35°1′53″N 87°24′53″W / 35.03139°N 87.41472°W / 35.03139; -87.41472Coordinates: 35°1′53″N 87°24′53″W / 35.03139°N 87.41472°W / 35.03139; -87.41472
Area	0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built	1872 (1872)
MPS	German Catholic Churches and Cemeteries of Lawrence County TR
NRHP Reference #	84000095^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 10, 1984

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.^[2] A number of the 19th-century monuments in the cemetery have German-language inscriptions.^[2] A small log church was built at the site in 1872 but was no longer standing as of 1984,^[2] when the cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 3 "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: German Catholic Churches and Cemeteries of Lawrence County Thematic Resources" (PDF). National Park Service. October 1984.

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Topics	Architectural style categories Contributing property Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places Keeper of the Register National Park Service Property types

Lists by states	Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Lists by insular areas	American Samoa Guam Minor Outlying Islands Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico Virgin Islands

Lists by associated states	Federated States of Micronesia Marshall Islands Palau

Other areas	District of Columbia Morocco

Portal WikiProject

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/30/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.