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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
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.
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.
There is a second Confederate memorial with the names of CSA veterans in the cemetery: an inscription on the gazebo, enhanced by a metal plaque commissioned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans circa 1990. [2] A third monument was erected by the Dyersburg Corporation for their employees at the historic Trenton Cotton Mills circa 1990. [2]
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).
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 ...
Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens is a cemetery noted for the number of musicians' graves located within it. It was established in 1960, and is located at 1150 Dickerson Pike in Goodlettsville, Tennessee , just north of Nashville . [ 1 ]