St John's Lutheran Cemetery is a historic

Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...

cemetery on Upper Tug Fork Rd. near Alexandria, Kentucky. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1983. It is the

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

of the St. John's Lutheran Church, which was established in 1860 and served German Lutherans in both in its Campbell County, Kentucky area and in southern Ohio. The cemetery was deemed "significant as a place of interment for local German Protestants. It also contains a unique instance of German funerary folk art." With .

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* {{National Register of Historic Places Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky National Register of Historic Places in Campbell County, Kentucky Lutheran cemeteries in the United States 1860 establishments in Kentucky Buildings and structures completed in 1860 German-American culture in Kentucky Lutheranism in Kentucky