*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS FROM 8AM-12PM*
Join us at Nashville City Cemetery in Nashville, TN on Tuesday July 11th, 2023!
All 48StateTour! events are free & open to the public
This event is cohosted by the Metro Historical Commission
Nashville City Cemetery
1001 4th Ave, Nashville, TN 37203
7/11/2023 8am-12pm
Find A Grave
Nashville City Cemetery Association
Nashville.gov
Facebook Event
Parking: There is limited parking within the cemetery. Street parking is available on Oak Street. Please see the parking map below for more detail!
In the Area/Lunch: There are two public bathrooms that participants will be able to utilize during the workshop. Additionally, the NCCA will be providing water, coffee and snacks for attendees.
Location Details (keep scrolling for Google maps)
*exerpt and images below are provided by our local event cohost Tim Walker with the Metro Historical Commission*
“The City Cemetery is the oldest continuously operated public cemetery in Nashville. On March 9, 1820, the Mayor of Nashville and the Aldermen purchased from Richard Cross four acres of land located “on the plains, south of town, for its burying ground.” The cemetery opened on January 1, 1822. Fourteen years later the cemetery had outgrown its original site and more acres were acquired. By 1850 the cemetery was the final resting place for over 11,000 people of every race, religion and economic status. Since the opening, there have been 20,000 interments in the City Cemetery. Over the years, there have been removals including the Civil War Federal soldiers to the National Cemetery, Gallatin Pike, C.S.A. soldiers to the Confederate Circle at Mt. Olivet, and the relocation of graves to new family lots in Mt. Olivet Cemetery after the Civil War.
Four of Nashville’s first settlers, James Robertson, founder of Nashville, and his wife Charlotte Reeves Robertson, and 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.”
