{"nrhp_refnum":"91000081","name":"Ramah Presbyterian Church and Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NC 2439 .3 mi. N of jct. with NC 2426","address_restricted":false,"city":"Huntersville","county":"Mecklenburg County","state":"NC","lat":35.43952351900003,"lon":-80.80246796299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-02-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Art","Exploration/Settlement","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A white frame Presbyterian church with a cemetery and two additional buildings, located on a rural road about one mile east of Huntersville in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The 1881 church building, the 1935 fellowship hall and the cemetery are the contributing resources, while the 1958 educational building is noncontributing.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the church and cemetery reflect Scotch-Irish settlement and the growth of farming communities in northern Mecklenburg County through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The cemetery's gravestones, dating from 1801 to 1939, are presented as a record of traditional and popular monument designs. The 1881 church is described as an intact example of a mid-nineteenth-century church design and one of only two frame nineteenth-century churches remaining in the county.","narrative":"Set on a winding rural road about a mile east of Huntersville, the church grounds cover roughly 35 acres of pasture and mature hickory and pine. The 1881 frame sanctuary is a gable-front building with a central entrance, segmental-arched windows and an interior balcony. It was built by the congregation with materials and labor from its members on the site of earlier log and frame churches dating from about 1795 and 1820. The adjoining cemetery holds about 500 headstones, including 92 dating from 1800 to 1860, many of them plain granite markers with family names, and about 15 marble obelisks erected between 1880 and 1910. The graves are regarded as a record of the Scotch-Irish settlers and the families who farmed this area, and of the changing styles of gravestones through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.","period_of_significance":"1801-1939","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Vernacular Greek Revival with Italianate elements","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Active congregation; the church is described as a thriving community and the building has been preserved in keeping with its original design.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.811613-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/7182/47718257/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/91000081.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47718257","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramah_Presbyterian_Church_and_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7288765"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county/ramah-presbyterian-church-and-cemetery-91000081/"}