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Yadkin County declares March ‘Abandoned Cemeteries Awareness Month’
Summary
The Board adopted a resolution after a presentation by Andrew Mackie of the Yadkin Historical and Genealogical Society outlining a 2025 survey of local abandoned cemeteries; motion passed 5-0.
Andrew Mackie, chair of the Cemetery Committee of the Yadkin Historical and Genealogical Society, presented the committee’s 2025 findings to the Board on March 2 and read a resolution to declare March as Abandoned Cemeteries Awareness Month.
Mackie listed the sites surveyed in 2025, including the Nancy Brown Cemetery, Johnson Family Cemetery, the 1796 original Center Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery, and several family and enslaved persons’ cemeteries such as the Enslaved Phillips Cemetery. He provided the Board a written report with the listing and said the work will continue in 2026.
Vice Chairman Frank Zachary moved to adopt the resolution and the Board voted 5-0 to approve it. The resolution formally recognizes the committee’s work and encourages public awareness and preservation efforts; no immediate county funding was pledged at the March 2 meeting.
A likely next step would be further committee work and potential follow-up requests to the Board for preservation actions or funding; the transcript does not record any such formal request.
