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This active cemetery opened in 1891 with the first burial occurring in 1892. The cemetery covers 96 acres. Office hours are M-F, 9:30 am to 3:00 pm. Cemetery gates are open for visitors daily until sunset. This cemetery, also known as Beautiful Greenwood Cemetery , is located on 1954 Greenwood Road, Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Smith County, Tennessee. Official Website Smith County was established in 1799 and was named for Daniel Smith, a U.S. Senator and former Secretary of the Southwest Territory. Smith County was the site of a large saltpeter mine. Piper Cave, located near Monoville, contains the poorly preserved remnants of dozens of saltpeter leachi...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Shelby County, Tennessee. Official Website This area along the Mississippi River valley was long occupied by varying cultures of indigenous peoples. In historic times, the Chickasaw controlled much of this area. They are believed to be descendants of the important Mississippian culture, which established fortified and complex citie...
East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is a public research university in Johnson City, Tennessee. Although it is part of the State University and Community College System of Tennessee, the university is governed by an institutional Board of Trustees. As of May 2017, it is the fourth largest university in the state and has off-campus centers in nearby Kingsport, Elizabethton, and Sevierville. ...
Wikipedia Vanderbilt University (also known informally as Vandy) is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 1873. The university is named in honor of shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the South. The Commodore hoped that his gift and the greater work...
The Knoxville campaign was a series of American Civil War battles and maneuvers in East Tennessee during the fall of 1863 designed to secure control of the city of Knoxville and with it the railroad that linked the Confederacy east and west, and position the First Corps under Longstreet for return to the Army of Northern Virginia. Union Army forces under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside occupied Knox...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Blount County, Tennessee. Official Website History On July 11, 1795, Blount County became the tenth county established in Tennessee , when the Territorial Legislature voted to split adjacent Knox and Jefferson counties. The new county was named for the governor of the Southwest Territory, William Blount , and its county seat, Mary...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Tennessee. Official Website Wayne County was created in 1817. It is named after General "Mad Anthony" Wayne, a prominent military leader in the American Revolutionary War. Waynesboro, its county seat, was established in 1821. Located along the Tennessee River, the city of Clifton emerged as a key river port in the mid-...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lewis County, Tennessee.= Official Website = History Lewis County was formed in 1843 and was named for explorer Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Lewis's grave is located at the geographic center of the county. Lewis County was the site of the Cane Creek Massacre. The massacre, also known as Tennessee’s Mormon Massac...
Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown was established in 1888 and chartered in 1892. It is one of three distinct cemeteries in Memphis - the other two being Forest Hill Cemetery (East) and Forest Hill Cemetery (South). It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Memphis, with many large, stately trees. It's located on 1661 Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, not far from Graceland. In fact,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Warren County, Tennessee. Official Website Warren County was created in 1807 and named for Joseph Warren (1741–1775), a soldier in the American Revolution. The county was largely developed for farming of such crops as tobacco and hemp. Adjacent Counties DeKalb County White County Cannon County Coffee County Grundy Co...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Coffee County, Tennessee. Official Website Coffee County was formed in 1836 from parts of Bedford, Warren, and Franklin counties. It was named for John Coffee, a prominent planter, land speculator, and militia officer. Similar to other counties in this area of the state, planters here cultivated mostly tobacco and hemp, produced by...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cannon County, Tennessee. Official Website Cannon County was established by the Tennessee state legislature on January 31, 1836. It was formed from portions of Rutherford, Smith, Wilson, and Warren counties and was named for Governor Newton Cannon. Adjacent Counties DeKalb County Warren County Coffee County Rutherford ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Morgan County, Tennessee.= Official Website =Morgan County was formed in 1817 and was named in honor of Daniel Morgan (1736–1802), an American Revolutionary War officer who commanded the troops that defeated the British at the Battle of Cowpens, and who later served as a U.S. congressman from Virginia. Adjacent Counties * Anderson Cou...
Wikipedia The University of Memphis, also called the UofM, is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 22,000 students. With 25 Chairs of Excellence and five state-approved Centers of Excellence, the school is the flagship institution of the Tennessee Board of Regents...
Wikipedia Tennessee Technological University, popularly known as Tennessee Tech, is an accredited public university located in Cookeville, Tennessee, United States, a city approximately 70 miles east of Nashville. It was formerly known as Tennessee Polytechnic Institute (1915), and before that as University of Dixie, the name under which it was founded as a private institution in 1909. It pla...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Official Website Rutherford County was formed in 1803 and was named in honor of Griffith Rutherford (1721–1805). Rutherford was a North Carolina colonial legislator and an American Revolutionary War general, who settled in Middle Tennessee after the Revolution. He was appointed President of the Council...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bedford County, Tennessee. Official Website History The county was created in 1807 when the citizens of Rutherford County living south of the Duck River and the Stones River successfully petitioned the governor to split Rutherford County in two. Once the state's largest and most populous county, Bedford County's size (in terms o...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Marshall County, Tennessee. History Marshall County was created in 1836. It was originally to be named Cannon County, but due to a clerical error at the time of formation, the names of Marshall and Cannon Counties, both formed in 1836, were accidentally swapped and never corrected. It was named after the American jurist, John Marshal...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Macon County, Tennessee. Official Website Macon County was formed in 1842 and was named in honor of the late Revolutionary War veteran and United States Senator, Nathaniel Macon. Adjacent Counties Clay County Monroe County, Kentucky Jackson County Smith County Allen County, Kentucky Sumner County Trousdale County
Wikipedia Sewanee: The University of the South, also known as Sewanee, is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States. It is owned by 28 southern dioceses of the Episcopal Church, and its School of Theology is an official seminary of the church. The university's School of Letters offers graduate degrees in American Literature and Creative Writing. ...
This cemetery is located on 551 Defeated Creek Highway, Defeated, Smith County, Tennessee. Find a Grave Roots Web
Please do not confuse this cemetery with nearby Lakeview Memorial Gardens. They are separate cemeteries. This cemetery is located on City Park Drive, Lenoir City, Loudon County, Tennessee. Find a Grave
Historic sign says: Here was an early German settlement. First settlers were Jacob Derrick, Jacob Bird, and Adam Fox. A fort stood on Derrick's land nearby. Mark Fox was killed by Indians on Muddy Creek, 1787; he was buried in Fox Cemetery. An early Lutheran church is believed to have been near the cemetery. Cemetery is on Fox Cemetery Road, 0.1 miles south of Newport Highway (U.S. 411), on t...
The Battle of Hoover's Gap (24 June 1863) was the principal battle in the Tullahoma Campaign of the American Civil War , in which Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans drove Gen. Braxton Bragg ’s Confederates out of Central Tennessee . Rosecrans’ feigned move on the western end of the Confederate line had left the eastern mountain passes lightly defended, and Col. John T. Wilder 's mounted infantry a...