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White Store Church and Evergreen Cemetery is a national
historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...
containing a historic meetinghouse and
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 ...
at the junction of
New York State Route 8 New York State Route 8 (NY 8) is a north-south state highway in the central part of New York in the United States. It runs in a southwest-to-northeast direction from the Southern Tier to the northern part of Lake George. The souther ...
and White Store Road, 4 miles south of South New Berlin in
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,
Chenango County, New York Chenango County is a County (United States), county located in the south-central section U.S. state of New York (state), New York. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 47,220. Its county seat is Norwich, New York ...
. The district includes two contributing buildings, one contributing site, and seven contributing structures. The property consists of the cemetery established in 1805 and a
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style frame church completed in 1820. Also on the property is a small maintenance shed and
privy Privy is an old-fashioned term for an outdoor toilet, often known as an outhouse and by many other names. Privy may also refer to: * Privy council, a body that advises the head of state * Privy mark, a small mark in the design of a coin * Privy Pur ...
. The church is a simple, two story frame structure with a gable roof, measuring 40 feet wide and 46 feet deep. The cemetery contains approximately 400 burials, with the earliest stones dated to 1795. ''See also:'' 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 1995.


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* {{National Register of Historic Places in New York Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Federal architecture in New York (state) Churches in Chenango County, New York Cemeteries in Chenango County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Chenango County, New York Cemeteries established in the 1800s