Spratt Cemetery is a historic family

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

located near

Fort Mill Fort Mill, also known as Fort Mill Township, is a town in York County, South Carolina, United States. It is a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population of the town was 24,521. Some businesses and residents in the ...

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. It contains graves of three generations of the Spratt family, and other early settlers of the Fort Mill area. The cemetery consists of 14 marked graves and approximately 9 graves with broken stones or partial markers. It includes the grave of Thomas "Kanawha" Spratt (ca. 1731–1807), one of the first settlers of the area, and located adjacent to the site his homestead along

Nation Ford Road Nation Ford Road is a historic roadbed located near Fort Mill, York County, South Carolina. It dates to pre-historic times and is one of the oldest documented travel routes in the southeast. It provided one of the few reliable crossing places on t ...

. The land was provided for the Spratt homestead by the General New River, leader of the Catawba tribe. It was added to the

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in 2007.

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* {{National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina York County, South Carolina National Register of Historic Places in York County, South Carolina