From the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: "Butterwood United Methodist Church sits in a rural setting surrounded by woods and farmland. The building, in the simple Carpenter Gothic style, was designed and built by William Randolph Atkinson ca. 1866-67... On three sides of the church is the original one-acre church cemetery. Surrounding it are approximately nine additional acres to which about 1,000 graves were moved from cemeteries that had to be abandoned when the 48,000-acre Camp Pickett Military Reservation was created at the beginning of World War II. The land acquired for Pickett, mainly to the south and west of Butterwood, included cemeteries associated with two churches and numerous farms and homes. One square contains the moved stones and graves of the locally prominent Thompson family, descendants of the Darville family for whom the nearby hamlet of Darvills was named. The enlarged cemetery symbolizes a specific home-front sacrifice made by this rural community to the war effort. Over the years later family members have been buried alongside the moved graves of their kin... Re-interred graves from the Whites Chapel Methodist Church are located primarily in the west cemetery at Butterwood. Many graves were unmarked and re-interred in graves identified as "Unknown." The graves from home cemeteries were mainly re-interred back of the church and in the east cemetery. Many of the unknown graves are thought to include slaves and there is the possibility that some are of Native Americans."