Tabernacle Cemetery


Tabernacle Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Tabernacle Cemetery, March 2012
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Location	Tabernacle Cemetery Rd., just east of South Carolina Highway 254, near Greenwood, South Carolina
Coordinates	34°16′00″N 82°11′02″W / 34.26667°N 82.18389°W / 34.26667; -82.18389Coordinates: 34°16′00″N 82°11′02″W / 34.26667°N 82.18389°W / 34.26667; -82.18389
Area	3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built	1812 (1812)
NRHP Reference #	08000736^[1]
Added to NRHP	August 1, 2008

Tabernacle Cemetery is a historic cemetery located near Greenwood, Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was established in 1812, and includes the graves of many prominent citizens of Abbeville and Edgefield Districts and later Greenwood County as well, from the early-19th through the 20th centuries. It is the only cemetery in South Carolina where two Confederate Generals, namely brother-in-laws Nathan George Evans and Martin Witherspoon Gary, are buried. Most graves date from about 1812 to about 1950. The cemetery contains approximately 132 marked graves.^[2]^[3]

The cemetery was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Missy Lowery and J. Tracy Power (June 2008). "Tabernacle Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Tabernacle Cemetery, Greenwood County (just E. of S.C. Hwy. 254, Greenwood vicinity)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

External links

Tabernacle Cemetery at Find A Grave

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina

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