Abbotts Crossing near High Point in Davidson County, North Carolina — The American South (South Atlantic)
Abbotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery
Photographed By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 13, 2023
1. Abbotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery Marker
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1756
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Cemeteries & Burial Sites. In addition, it is included in the National Register of Historic Places series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1756.
Location. 36° 0.322′ N, 80° 5.03′ W. Marker is near High Point, North Carolina, in Davidson County. It is in Abbotts Crossing. Marker can be reached from Browntown Lane north of Abbotts Creek Church Road (North Carolina Road 1743), on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 154 Browntown Ln, High Point NC 27265, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Early American Tombstones (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Greene's Camp Site (about 400 feet away); George W. Wall House (approx. 3.3 miles away); Daniel Boone Trail (approx. 3˝ miles away); High Point Speedway (approx. 3.8 miles away); Tri City Speedway (approx. 3.9 miles away); Dr. C.S. Grayson House (approx. 4.6 miles away); Maxwell Reid Thurman (approx. 4.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in High Point.
Regarding Abbotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery.
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Abbott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church was organized about 1756 by the “Separatist” or “New Light” Baptist sect, an evangelical group which grew more rapidly than the older “Regular” Baptist sect because of their missionary fervor. Abbott's Creek and Jersey churches were the oldest Baptist congregations in this section of Piedmont North Carolina. Although many of the numerous gravestones of local craftsmanship in the cemetery were cut by local German stonecutters, the inscriptions are all in English, even on the earliest dated markers, and verse epitaphs are used frequently.
[The cemetery] derives primary significance from the unique collection of folk gravestones by local stonecutters erected here in the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. These highly decorative soapstone gravestones with folk symbols for resurrection and eternity represent the height of folk art accomplishment within the craft community of the Anglo-German farmers of north Davidson County.
Also see . . . Abbott's Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery (PDF). National Register nomination for the cemetery, which was listed in 1984. (Prepared by Ruth Little; via North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office) (Submitted on January 9, 2024, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.)
Photographed By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 13, 2023
2. Abbotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery Marker
Photographed By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 13, 2023
3. Abbotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery
Photographed By Duane and Tracy Marsteller, November 13, 2023
4. Tombstones in Abbotts Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery
There are about 450 gravestones in the cemetery, many of them cut in the "Pierced" style such as these.
Credits. This page was last revised on January 9, 2024. It was originally submitted on January 9, 2024, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 77 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on January 9, 2024, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
