Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery
National Register of Historic Places

Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery

Blackstone, Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Listed
April 10, 2003
Type
Building
Period
Civil War
Ref No.
03000213

About this property

Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery is a historic Methodist church and cemetery located near Darvills, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was built in 1866–1867, and is a one-story, frame building in the Carpenter Gothic style. It measures approximately 34 feet wide and 45 feet long, and features board and batten siding and concave gingerbread trim. Surrounding the church are approximately nine additional acres to which about 1,000 graves were moved from cemeteries that had to be abandoned when the 48,000-acre Camp Pickett Military Reservation was created at the beginning of World War II. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

Location

Blackstone, Dinwiddie County, Virginia
37.07262, -77.86113

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Sources

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When was Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery listed on the National Register?

Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 10, 2003.

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Butterwood Methodist Church and Butterwood Cemetery is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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