Record #:

8118

Author(s):

Austin, Sherry

Abstract:

In 1804, on Spring Street in Concord, the first Presbyterians built a forty-foot-long log cabin church in the shape of a cross. The church is gone now and the cemetery remained in poor condition until 1930, when Mrs. Sallie Phifer Williamson and landscape architect Clarence Leeman of Charlotte transformed it into a memorial garden, for Presbyterians and their slaves buried there. Its beautiful stone pathways, terraces, fountains, pools, and little statues in unexpected places keep visitors coming in all seasons. The garden draws thousands of visitors each year with its flowering trees and plants indigenous to North Carolina.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 53 Issue 10, Mar 1986, p8-9, por

Subject(s):

Cemeteries--Concord

Record #:

8277

Author(s):

Austin, Sherry Owens

Abstract:

For an old-fashioned scare, visit the Old Southport Cemetery. The oldest gravesite is dated 1804, but people were buried here earlier than that. The site today is overgrown with moss-covered oak trees and weeds. The Brunswick Inn and its ghost, Antonio Casaletta, offer another scary outing. Antonio was an Italian musician who, when staying at the Brunswick Inn as a member of inn's orchestra, ventured to sea and never returned. Guests have supposedly heard Tony walking through the music parlor, looking for his harp, since his death in 1882.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 52 Issue 8, Jan 1985, p20-22, por

Subject(s):

Ghosts--Southport