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Cemetery: Graham Cemetary
Other:
Sign: Yes
Street: The Cliffs at
Walnut Cove, Avery Creek Rd, Arden, NC 28704
City:
Asheville, NC....14 miles
Township: Avery Creek
County: Buncombe
State: North
Carolina
Nation: United States
of America
Zip:
28704
lat_ns: N
lat_h:
lat_mmss:
long_ew: W
long_h:
long_mmss:
Status: Abandoned
Size: Medium
Directions: Rt 191 S to Avery Creek Rd, turn
R..go 2.5 miles to a small white church past entrance to The Cliffs at
Walnut Cove golf course, cemetary is on hill behind church on two
adjoining pcs of property owned by Robert Wagoner, and the other
purchased from Marvin Kyle Jr by The Cliffs at Walnut Cove
Type:
Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Hillside
Watersource: No
Features: A nursery is on property
owned by Robert Wagoner
Property: Private
Access: Inaccessible
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Established: 1853
Gravestones: more than 55
Oldest: 1853
Newest: 1949
Removed: Yes
Relocated: No
Repairs: Yes
Methods: Other
Restoration: No
Association: No
Records: Unsure
Inventory: Unsure
Availability:
Landscaping: Unsure
Paths: Unsure
Trees: Yes4
Crypts: No
Fencing: No
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: No
Granite: No
Marble: Yes
Native: Yes
Slate: No
Others: Yes
Wood: No
Materials: Yes
Architectural: No
Angels: No
Draperies: No
Fraternal: No
Hands: No
Lambs: No
Monograms: No
Plants: No
Photos: No
Religious: No
Scrollwork: No
Urns: No
Carvings: No
Condition: Cemetery poorly maintained
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: Yes
Disintegrating: No
Buried: Unsure
Weather: Unknown
Pollution: Unknown
Vandalized: Yes
Report: No
VA1:
Gravestones-Overturned
VA2:
Gravestones-Broken
VA3:
VA4:
VA5:
Graves-Desecrated
Overgrowth: None
Overgrowth1: Problem-Access
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4:
GroundCover:
Moss:
Vines:
Drainage: Good
Problem1: Encroachment
Problem2:
Owner: Cemetery
Use:
Residential
Bordering: Residential
Change: Same
Reason: Roads
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: No
Habitat: Yes
Contacted: Buncombe County Commissioners,
and member of Cemetary assoc for Buncombe Cty, but they do not do
private family graveyards.
Surnames:
Graham
Other_Information:
This cemetary was fenced until two yrs ago, fence removed from Kyle
property side, and someone has reported grave stones removed or
scattered. A property line runs within the graveyard, and Robert
Wagoner property is being sold.
An analysis will be done tommorrow and a sheriff's report made if
stones are desecrated or moved.
Support:
David Gantt, Buncombe County Commissioners, Asheville, NC
Jim Coman, Asheville Planning and Development, cemetaries committee
Elaine Graham, Pennsylvania Rd, Arden, NC 828-684-8312
Submitted by:
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Name:
Elaine Graham
Email: s_imij@aol.com
Date:
4-1-2005
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