Tabernacle Methodist Protestant Church and Cemetery

Tabernacle Methodist Protestant Church and Cemetery occupies a knoll along Liberty Road, roughly ten miles south of Greensboro. The weatherboarded frame sanctuary, finished in June 1891 for $2,500, is a simple Gothic Revival design with a five-bay plan, stained glass windows and an interior of original heart-pine ceiling, wainscot, pews and pulpit. Behind and beside it lies a cemetery whose oldest marked stone dates from 1822, with granite obelisks, urns, lamb figures and tablet markers from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The site began as an eighteenth-century campground called Eden, visited by Methodist circuit riders, and later hosted several annual conferences of the Methodist Protestant Church. It was listed for its role in Methodism in Guilford County, for the church as a well-preserved rural frame church, and for the variety of funerary art in the graveyard. Newer brick buildings stand nearby, but the 1891 church is the only nineteenth-century building left.