Burkes Garden Central Lutheran Church, listed as Burkes Garden Central Church and Cemetery, is a historic

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, and national historic district located at

Burke's Garden Burke's Garden is an upland valley and unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Virginia. Geography and geology The oval, bowl-like valley (or "cove") is known for its fertile land and was once the bed of an ancient sea. About long and wide ...

Tazewell County, Virginia Tazewell County () is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,429. Its county seat is Tazewell. Tazewell County is part of the Bluefield, WV-VA Micropolitan S ...

. The church was built in 1875, and is a plain rectangular frame building, two bays long, with a steep gable roof. It originally served multiple denominations as a union church but has exclusively served the Lutheran denomination in modern times. The community was an outpost of German immigrants who settled in the backcountry frontier in the late 18th century. The cemetery was founded in 1827, and contains a notable collection of

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in 1979.

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