Our Cooler Than You Would Think Historic Cemetery
To walk amidst the graves of Friends and others buried in New Garden Cemetery is to stroll through history, from pre-Revolutionary days right up to the present.
Among those buried there:
Nameless British and American soldiers who fell at the Battle of New Garden and later at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. (Friends from New Garden tended to the wounded from both sides, caring for them in their frame Meeting House.)
Vestal Coffin, known as the First Conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Baseball legends Rick and Wes Ferrell, who grew up on a nearby dairy farm. Rick was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame; his record for the most games caught stood for more than 40 years. Wes was one of the greatest pitchers of the 1920s and ’30s.
John and Mary Woody are buried here. They set aside portions of their land for purchase by African Americans after the Civil War, enabling the families of former slaves to build homes and seek financial stability.
Poet Randall Jarrell, who taught at UNCG and was the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. That position is now known as Poet Laureate.
New Garden Cemetery, located behind the Meeting House at
801 New Garden Road,
is owned and maintained by
the New Garden Cemetery Association.
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