Greenwood Cemetery (Nashville, Tennessee)
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery situated at 1428 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville in Davidson County, Tennesse, United States.[1] The cemetery opened in 1888.[2]
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Background
The cemetery was founded by Preston Taylor in 1888, who also established Greenwood Park in 1905. Greenwood Park was the first park in Nashville for African-American communities.[3]
Taylor was born to slave parents in Louisiana in 1849 and moved to Nashville in 1884.[4] Initially along with Taylor, three other men have planned to purchase a 37 acres (150,000 m2) of land near Buttermilk Ridge at Elm Hill Road for $30,000 in 1887. But Taylor purchased the land himself and in 1888 he established Greenwood Cementry. The main purpose was to provide low cost, first class burial land for African-American residents of Nashville.[2] It is the second oldest cemetery for the African-American community in Nashville.[5]
Notable interments
Notable individuals interred here include Arna Bontemps, Charles S. Johnson, John Merritt and James C. Napier.[6] Other burials include DeFord Bailey, Marshall Keeble and Mattie Eliza Coleman.[7]
See also
References
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{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ a b "About Greenwood Cemetery". Retrieved 27-6-2014.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Story of Greenwood". Historic Nashville. Retrieved 27-6-2014.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Early life of Preston". tntribune.com. Retrieved 27-6-2014.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Greenwood the second oldest Cemetery". The Restoration Movement. Retrieved 27-6-2014.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "Notable interred buried at Greenwood". nndb.com. Retrieved 27-6-2014.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ "DeFord, Marshall, Mattie buried at Greenwood Cemetery". Retrieved 28-6-2014.
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