Mount_Lebanon_Chapel_and_Cemetery

Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery

Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery

Historic site in New Hanover County, North Carolina, US

Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery, also known as Lebanon Chapel, is a historic Episcopal chapel and cemetery located on the grounds of Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was built about 1835, and is a one-story, three bay by three bay, gable-roofed, rectangular building in a vernacular Greco-Gothic. It measures 26 feet wide and 37 feet deep, and is sheathed in weatherboard. It was restored in 1974. The cemetery contains 138 burials dating from 1815 to 2016.[2] It is the oldest known surviving church in New Hanover County.[3]

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Mount Lebanon Cemetery
Sign at gated entrance

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. [2]
    Mt. Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery Retrieved May 16, 2020
  3. [3]
    Edward F. Turberg (June 1986). "Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.
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