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Location of McMinn County in Tennessee. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in McMinn County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in McMinn County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
This is a list of notable cemeteries in Tennessee. Entries marked ‡ are cemeteries with notable monuments or burials. Monument and graves of the Civil War Medal of Honor recipients at Chattanooga National Cemetery Union Army monument at Knoxville National Cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee
The cemetery was formally founded in 1855 but has some earlier burials, as early as 1841. It has 475 documented graves, including those of 66 Confederate Civil War soldiers. [ 1 ] Among the Civil War veterans is Union Brevet Brigadier General, James Patton Brownlow who died at Knoxville, Tennessee, United States (1841–1879).
McMinn County was created in 1819 from Indian lands and was named in honor of Joseph McMinn (1758–1824). [1] McMinn was a militia commander during the Revolutionary War, a member of the territorial legislature, speaker of the state senate, and eventually governor of the state of Tennessee.
Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee from 1815 to 1821, spent the last few years of his life in Calhoun, and is buried in the Shiloh Presbyterian Cemetery, which is located in Calhoun. In 1954, the pulp and paper giant Bowater (now Resolute Forest Products ) established a plant in Calhoun that soon grew to become one of the largest newsprint ...
The Franklin City Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Four American Revolutionary War veterans are buried there. The cemetery is significant for its history of early settlers and for its funerary markers, the most unusual of which is perhaps a "treestone" one.
Hendersonville Memory Gardens is a cemetery located at 353 East Main Street in Hendersonville, Tennessee, United States, a few miles northeast of Nashville. Formerly known as Woodlawn Memorial Park East , it is the burial site of Johnny Cash as well as several members of the Carter Family of musicians, and numerous other stars from the world of ...
The cemetery was established as the New Pulaski Cemetery in 1855. [2] The oldest section, known as Old Maplewood, contains the burials of whites and blacks. [2] In 1878, another section was added for African-American burials. [2] The name was changed to Maplewood Cemetery in 1880. [2] It was further expanded in 1907 and the 1940s. [2]