St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
St John's Lutheran Cemetery | |
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| Location | Upper Tug Fork Rd., near Alexandria, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 39°0′51″N 84°22′58″W / 39.01417°N 84.38278°W |
| Area | 1.4 acres (0.57 ha) |
| MPS | German Settlement, Four Mile Creek Area TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 83002617[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 9, 1983 |
St John's Lutheran Cemetery is a historic Lutheran cemetery on Upper Tug Fork Rd. in Alexandria, Kentucky. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
It is the cemetery of the St. John's Lutheran Church, which was established in 1860 and served German Lutherans in both in its Campbell County, Kentucky area and in southern Ohio.[2]
The cemetery was deemed "significant as a place of interment for local German Protestants. It also contains a unique instance of German funerary folk art."[2]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: German Settlement Properties of Campbell County, Kentucky" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 25, 2018. With photos.
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