St. John's Lutheran Cemetery

United States historic place


St John's Lutheran Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


39°0′51″N 84°22′58″W / 39.01417°N 84.38278°W / 39.01417; -84.38278
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. near 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.