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Nashville City Cemetery

1001 4th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee 37203 USA

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“See the spooky suicide rock”

Opened in 1822, the City Cemetery is the oldest continuously operated public cemetery in Nashville. A walk through the cemetery is truly a walk through Nashville's history. The gravestones tell the stories of individuals and families from the 1820s to the present day. Four of Nashville's founders, James and Charlotte Robertson & John and Ann Robertson Cockrill; American Revolutionary War soldiers Lipscomb Norvell, Joel Lewis, Anthony Foster; four Confederate generals: Felix Zollicoffer, Bushrod Johnson, Richard Ewell, and Samuel Read Anderson; the man who named the American flag "Old Glory," Captain William Driver; Union Navy Commodore Paul Shirley; a Tennessee Governor, William Carroll; 15 mayors of Nashville, and two of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers, Mabel Lewis Imes and Ella Sheppard Moore, also many slaves and free persons of color interred prior to the Civil War, are among those buried in the small and peaceful cemetery,  The City Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 because of its historical and architectural significance.

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March 19, 2016
Rated 3.0

Cool place. Parking inside.

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Nashville City Cemetery

1001 4th Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee
37203 USA
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  • Sun - Sat: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

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