Harmony Cemetery
Rt. 1/1, Marlow, WVThe Harmony Cemetery is significant as an early interdenominational burying site started about 1830. The majority of cemeteries in Berkeley County were privately located on individual plantations or with a particular denomination. The name itself stands for exactly what it was-harmony and unison among the people of the area. A letter from one of the Williamson who left and went to Ohio in the 1840s sent to his cousin in Berkeley County in the late 1850s expressed his sadness at the division of Harmony of the old meeting house. Many of the tombstones in the cemetery are outstanding for their craftsmanship-a lamb, bird on laurel of flowers, a very outstanding cast iron marker (very few of these exist in Berkeley County). The property has further significance for the site of the meeting house; valuable for culture study as the only interdenominational meeting house site and cemetery in Berkeley County.
Local significance of the site:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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