(Not the expected) Cemeteries (thread) (Cary, Holly Springs: home, live, fence)

[DaBears]

There is also one on Athens DR by the high school. I dont remember the street name but it is by some apartments. And others have mentioned the one at Tryon & holly springs (by the big church)

I know it would be a drive but there is one by my parents house in Charlotte

[monkeychi1]

I know of one in a strange location... My boyfriend lived at Westgrove Tower apartments (on Blue Ridge Rd. near Western Blvd. - next to the movie theater). He worked at NC State, and would walk to work by cutting through a field between the apartment building and part of NCSU's property (a warehouse and some other small buildings), which is adjacent to it. There is a gate in the fence and a trail...you can't miss it.
Anyway, the cemetary is located in a small wooded area just off the trail through that gate. It is very old, untended, and has some very unusual headstones. We thought it was a really cool discovery!

[Vnyrd]

There is an old slave graveyard near the corner of Fall River Ave and Grassy Creek Place in the Falls River development. It is in a small gove of trees between two houses, near the road. Most of the graves are unmarked except for small red flags put there by (I think) the Historical Society who did a survery to identify the graves. They are from the mid 1800's when the area was a large farm. I believe they want to clean up the brush and properly mark each one some day.

[HappyNCGirl]

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Originally Posted by HappyNCGirl

Absolutely lovely old cemetary in Wilmington, NC. You can spend hours there. Graves include a ships captain's daughter who was buried in a keg of liquor. She died while on a voyage with her father, and her body was placed in the keg to keep it until they got home.

Isn't this the "Old Buying Ground" in Beaufort? (near morehead city, atlantic beach and emerald isle?

no, Oakdale in Wilmington. Check the cemetary website. Maybe NC has two girls buried in kegs

[JQ Public]

There is a Random one at the corner of Lynn Rd and Bent Creek rd.

[RDSLOTS]

There's a niche carved in the landscape where an Upchurch marker rests, along Davis Drive.

I'll look next time I pass it, but I think it is past the Morrisville Parkway, on the left, headed towards High House. Found it odd, with Preston built all around it.


Next time you are in Wilmington, go down Myrtle Grove Sound Road, and turn into a neighborhood called Shinn Wood. Beautiful new homes, developed along one main street and running towards the waterway. There is a small, old cemetery on what would be a corner lot, almost hidden in trees. Kinda creepy but beautiful, too. Always found it strange it was there, and recall thinking, "wonder why they haven't sold that lot?"

[waderight]

For example, there is a cemetery in Greenville that had a shopping plaza built around it, it's in the middle of a parking lot.

That's Pitt Plaza.

[RPV2NC]

On the north side of Old Jenks road between 55 and Roberts there is a small, random cemetery - maybe ten headstones.

[ceb72]

There is a small family plot in the middle of Imperial Center in RTP. It is well hidden by tall trees but if you happen to park near it, you can see the graves.

[suncat]

I live across the street from Oberlin Cemetery, a small African-American cemetery set between Oberlin Village and Cameron Village's residential area.

North Carolina History Project : Oberlin Cemetery