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	Nashville.gov - Historical and Zoning Commission - Nashville City Cemetary
		The old Nashville City Cemetery, located on 4th Avenue South and Oak Street, was begun in the 1820s, and is the oldest public cemetery in middle Tennessee.
		The Nashville City Cemetery Association in cooperation with the Metro Historical Commission is actively working to restore the cemetery and increase awareness through public participation.
		The cemetery is a burial ground and not a recreation area.
	www.nashville.org /mhc/nashville_city_cemetary.htm (282 words)

	Nashville City Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nashville City Cemetery is the oldest public cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.
		Nashville City Cemetery was opened on January 1, 1822.
		Among those interred in the cemetery are two of Nashville's founders, four Confederate generals, one Tennessee Governor, and twenty-two mayors of Nashville.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nashville_City_Cemetery (264 words)

	Nashville's Historic City Cemetery
		Nashville's City Cemetery, the oldest in Davidson County, is replete with literal touchstones to our past.
		Working to preserve the site's architectural and historical integrity, The Nashville City Cemetery Association is trying to raise public awareness of the threat that time, vandals, and neglect can wreck on an outdoor museum such as the City Cemetery.
		City Cemetery monument to Felix K. Zollicoffer, Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, who was killed in battle on Jan. 19, 1862 at the Battle of Fishing Creek, Kentucky.
	www.blueshoenashville.com /citycemetery.html (354 words)

	Cemeteries - Nashville National Cemetery - Burial & Memorials
		Nashville National Cemetery is located in Madison, Tenn., in Davidson County approximately six miles northeast of Nashville’s city center.
		Nashville National Cemetery is home to one of five monumental entrance archways erected at national cemeteries during the post-Civil War period.
		Cemetery policies are conspicuously posted and readily visible to the public.
	www.cem.va.gov /CEM/cems/nchp/nashville.asp (1475 words)

	American Civil War
		The Nashville Metro Council has appropriated \\$400,000 to begin the stabilization of Fort Negley and a master plan is being devised to begin the process of opening the site to the public (currently Negley Park is closed).
		Critical action of the Battle of Nashville: It was at Shy's Hill on Dec. 16, 1864 during the Battle of Nashville that Federal troops finally broke the Confederate line on the left flank, resulting in a massive Rebel retreat and a decisive Union victory.
		Nashville City Cemetery First established in 1822, the Old City Cemetery is one of the oldest public cemeteries in the region and holds the remains of many early settlers who were brought here for permanent burial.
	www.americancivilwar.50megs.com /Hoods1864dtour03.html (5830 words)

	South Nashville History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Even before final plans for the city had been decided, Tennessee passed legislation that the then fledgling school of Davidson Academy, which was in makeshift quarters six miles to the northeast of town, be located on 100 tax-free acres on the hill one mile south of town.
		Most of city of Nashville in the early 1800’s lay within the boundaries of the River to east, the railroad gulch to the west, Jo Johnson Street to the north and Broad Street to the South.
		Expansion of the city was limited to the north by a large flood plain and to the west by the low lying railroad gulch.
	home.comcast.net /~jimrv6/southnashvillehistory.html (605 words)

	Nashville City Cemetery Association, Inc. - History
		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.
		The City Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 because of its historical and architectural significance.
	www.thenashvillecitycemetery.org /history.htm (231 words)

	The News Examiner - Community
		The fascinating life of one of Nashville’s leading 19th century citizens, Mary Rutledge Fogg, will be the focus of the Nashville City Cemetery Association’s original production of a Victorian funeral on Oct. 4.
		The Nashville City Cemetery is the oldest existing cemetery in Davidson County.
		The Nashville City Cemetery was formed in 1998 to work with the Metro Historical Commission and the city of Nashville to protect, preserve and restore the cemetery.
	www.gallatinnewsexaminer.com /news/stories/20030919/cookbook.shtml (634 words)

	Nashville City Cemetery
		Located, figuratively, in the shadow of Fort Negley on St. Cloud's Hill, the City Cemetery is one of the oldest public cemeteries in the region (est.
		A newspaper editor and politician in Nashville, Zollicoffer led Confederate troops in East Tennessee at the beginning of the war and was shot and killed at the Battle of Mill Springs (Fishing Creek), Ky. on Jan. 19, 1862.
		During the war, he married Lizinka Campbell Brown of Nashville, and after the war they retired to Spring Hill, Tenn. They both died in January 1872 and are buried together at City Cemetery on the lot of her parents, George Washington and Harriet Stoddart Campbell.
	www.bonps.org /tour/oldcitycem.htm (601 words)

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		I have written you before about the deplorable conditions of the Nashville City Cemetery and particularly the corner of it in which my 5 great- grandmother, Anne Robertson Johnson Cockrill is buried.
		If she were an ordinary citizen of your city, interred as she is, the condition of her grave and the whole cemetery would be a sad, sad shame.
		Brochures of the City cemetery ought to be distributed as they are for other Nashville landmarks and attractions.
	jrshelby.com /rfotw/nashmayr.htm (570 words)

	Friends of the Metropolitan Archives
		Nashville's first industry was the manufacturer of cotton spinning machinery by George Poyzer in 1802.
		William Driver, buried in Nashville's historic City Cemetery, named the American Flag "Old Glory" and it was his flag that rose over the state capitol when Nashville fell to Union Forces.
		Nashville was the first city in the south to receive telephone service in 1877.
	www.geocities.com /metroarchives/Facts.html (1782 words)

	USFlag.org: A website dedicated to the Flag of the United States of America - "OLD GLORY!"
		He retired to Nashville in 1837, taking his treasured flag from his sea days with him.
		By the time the Civil War erupted, most everyone in and around Nashville recognized Captain Driver's "Old Glory." When Tennesee seceded from the Union, Rebels were determined to destroy his flag, but repeated searches revealed no trace of the hated banner.
		Captain Driver's grave is located in the old Nashville City Cemetery, and is one of three (3) places authorized by act of Congress where the Flag of the United States may be flown 24 hours a day.
	www.usflag.org /history/oldglorystory.html (388 words)

	The City Paper - Smart, Fast, Free (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Nashville architect Edwin Keeble, famed locally for his work among them the L&C Tower, designed the building, which stands in the middle of the city cemetery.
		Metro Parks and Recreation is responsible for the maintenance of the city cemetery, which is considered Parks property.
		The cemetery was the first in the state to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.nashvillecitypaper.com /index.cfm?section=9&screen=news&news_id=48513 (519 words)

	HNI - Endangered Nashville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		City Cemetery, Fourth Avenue South (listed on the National Register of Historic Places): Although the final resting places of notable Nashvillians such as Gen. James Robertson has historically been the victim of vandalism and poor maintenance, a renewed interest in the cemetery is helping to change that.
		The First Annual Nashville City Cemetery Living History Tour took place last fall, and the volunteer-based Nashville City Cemetery Association was recently formed to assist with routine maintenance.
		Centennial Club (Nashville Union Mission), Eight Avenue North downtown: For many years, this rare example of Spanish Mission Revival style building housed the Centennial Club, so-named because it was established by former members of the Women’s Board of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in 1905.
	www.historicnashville.org /historicink/volume2/number3/endangered.shtml (2078 words)

	Purposes of the Davidson County Cemetery Survey
		Nashville Town Committee of Colonial Dames (NSCDA-TN) contributed funds to employ data entry personnel to enter the tombstone inscriptions and cemetery information on the database.
		During the spring and summer 2005, the tombstone inscriptions in the Nashville City Cemetery are being recorded.
		All cemetery locations have been turned over to the Metro Planning Commission so that these cemeteries will be known, recorded on Metro maps and protected in the future.
	davidsoncocemeterysurvey.com /purposes_of_the_davidson_county.htm (340 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Davidson County, Tenn.
		Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
		Carthage Cemetery, Carthage, Tenn.; reinterment in 1908 at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
		Mayor of Nashville, Tenn., 1871-74, 1875-83, 1886-88; resigned 1888.
	politicalgraveyard.com /geo/TN/DA5.html (2153 words)

	175 markers in historic cemetery vandalized; police step up patrols - Wednesday, 03/17/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In response to the destruction, the cemetery association is taking steps to replace the fence surrounding the site on Fourth Avenue South, and Metro police and parks officials have stepped up patrols, he said.
		Metro Police Sgt. John Patton said several headstones at the Greenwood Cemetery on Elm Hill Pike were damaged on the same night the vandalism occurred at the city cemetery.
		Members of the cemetery association are assessing the damage and trying to determine which markers can be restored and which will have to be replaced.
	www.tennessean.com /local/archives/04/03/48468825.shtml?Element_ID=48468825 (474 words)

	Old Nashville City Cemetery Photo Gallery by Dead Elvis at pbase.com
		I visited Nashville from Seattle in Nov 2005 and stumbled on this cemetery completely by accident and was fascinated.
		Is it noted anywhere the phrase on the right granite column, as you enter City Cemetary that is slowly erroding from view: "Here sleep heroes of historic days, who lived and wrought the South's fair fame.
		As a child I was in a journalism class and we did a documentary on the Old City Cemetary.
	www.pbase.com /deadelvis/cemetary (201 words)

	Williamson County Real Estate -- Homes For Sale in Williamson County
		Offering the best of both worlds, with small town charm and big city elegance Williamson is a popular place to move in the Nashville-Davidson area.
		One of the largest cities in Williamson, Franklin, is also the county seat.
		For the size of the forces engaged and the short duration of the fighting, this battle at Franklin ranks among the great blood baths of the Civil War, or of any of the American wars for that matter.
	www.nashvilles-real-estate.com /nashville_williamson_county.htm (613 words)

	Nashville, NC News
		The rain couldn't deter the hundreds who came to the Ayden cemetery to pay their respects.
		NASHVILLE When N.C. Rep. Bill Daughtridge took the podium to address the Nash County Republican Party at its convention Thursday night, he had plenty to say about his party's goals, prospects and ideals.
		By KEN MURCHISON A Bailey man was arrested last Saturday night after a disturbance at the Spaulding Family Resource Center and area residents have asked the town board to put a stop to parties at the center.
	www.topix.net /city/nashville-nc?scoring=d (630 words)

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		Vandals have destroyed dozens of headstones and monuments at a historic cemetery in Nashville.
		Nashville City Cemetery is the oldest burial ground in Davidson County.
		A large number of people associated with Nashville’s history are buried in the cemetery, including 21 Nashville mayors.
	www.newschannel5.com /content/news/4299.asp?print=true (79 words)

	Tennessee Master Gardeners - Historic Nashville City Cemetery - Davidson County
		The old Nashville City Cemetery, located on 4th Avenue South, was begun in the 1820s, and is the oldest public cemetery in middle Tennessee.
		The Davidson County Master Gardeners became involved in the late 1990s as a part of a renewed conservation and restoration effort by the newly formed Nashville City Cemetery Association and the Metropolitan Historical Commission.
		Inclusion of sites does not imply University of Tennessee or Metro Government of Nashville and Davidson County approval of their product or service to the exclusion of others that may be similar, nor does it guarantee or warrant the standard of the products or service offered.
	www.mastergardener.net /tn/davidson/cemetery.htm (306 words)

	Mt. Olivet Cemetery - Online Archive of Terry's Texas Rangers
		Nashville, TN Confederate Circle, Mt. Olivet Cemetery holds the remains of over 1,500 Confederate Soldiers including 62 identified men from Terry's Rangers.
		They were originally buried in Nashville's Old City Cemetery but were moved to Confederate Circle in 1869.
		After the war between the states, the women of Nashville bought land at Mt. Olivet, and formed Confederate Circle.
	www.terrystexasrangers.org /cemeteries/tn_davidson_nashville_mtolivet.html (207 words)

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		After the federal government established the National Cemetery in Nashville in 1866, some 1,909 former fl soldiers from Union army regiments were buried there, with tombstones imprinted USCT.
		The board accepted the property from the Mount Ararat Association and Mount Ararat Cemetery, Inc., and the new management (under Robert Mosley, Jr.) cleared brush and trees and restored the neglected sections of Mount Ararat.
		In 1988, Greenwood Cemetery was honored by mayoral proclamations recognizing its 100th anniversary and commending its contributions to Nashville's history and culture.
	www.tnstate.edu /library/digital/mount.htm (650 words)

	Taphophilia (dot) Com - Songwriterâs grave sparks Metro law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A gravestone for legendary Nashville songwriter Harlan Howard has led to a Metro Council ordinance asking for future markers and stones to be approved by Metroâs Board of Parks and Recreation before installation in the cityâs historic cemeteries.
		It seems that the dean of Nashville songwritersâ gravestone, located with permission in the historic Zollicoffer family plot at The Nashville City Cemetery, is a little too clean and too white alongside markers of Nashvilleâs founders and war heroes.
		Howard, a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, died March 3, 2002 at age 74.
	www.taphophilia.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=320 (519 words)

	11th Kentucky Volunteers
		Died 27 Aug 62 at Nashville, TN of typhoid and buried 27 Aug 62.
		Died 1 Jun 62 at Nashville, TN of phthisis (tuberculosis).
		Died 22 Dec 62 at Nashville, TN of ulceration of bowels.
	home.okstate.edu /homepages.nsf/toc/11ky.htm (20297 words)

	Group seeks ways to protect tombstones from time and vandals - Saturday, 04/17/04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Fred Zahn of the Metro Historical Commission led a session on the dos and don'ts of graveyard care that was part of a field trip to the Nashville City Cemetery, not far from downtown.
		The Nashville City Cemetery, at 1001 Fourth Ave.
		Mack said listening to Zahn talk about the recent vandalisms in Nashville makes her wonder about the future of her cemetery in South Pittsburg.
	www.tennessean.com /local/archives/04/04/50037460.shtml?Element_ID=50037460 (479 words)

	Old Glory (U.S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 1860, the Captain's wife and daughter took the flag apart, cut off the raveled and frayed seams, replaced the old stars and added new ones to make 34 total (the correct number for the date) and an anchor embroidered in the lower right corner of the canton.
		The Captain was on hand to greet the Ohio Regiment when they became the first to enter the city and they followed the Captain home, where he began ripping at the seams of his bed cover.
		Captain Driver's grave is located in the old Nashville City Cemetery, and is one of the places authorized by act of Congress where the Flag of the United States may be flown 24 hours a day.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/us-glor.html (615 words)

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