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New Information on James K. Polk Interments Available

Because we continually update the site, we have moved new changes to a page devoted to these new entries. 

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    The City Cemetery Interment Books are now online at the Nashville Public Library. Go to our Interments page to access these records where you will also find a link to explanations of these Books.

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Metro Historical Commission
before you make a visit to Nashville City Cemetery
 
 


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The Nashville City Cemetery Association is pleased to be partnering with  the Community Foundation's GivingMatters website.  Click here to see the listing.

Opened in 1822, the City Cemetery is the oldest continuously operated public cemetery in Nashville. 

A walk through the cemetery is truly a walk through Nashville's history. The gravestones tell the stories of individuals and families from the 1820s to the present day.

In response to the disrepair, vandalism, and neglect over many decades, former Mayor Bill Purcell and the Metro Council approved the Mayor's Capital Budget request for a $3M project to restore the City Cemetery. The Restoration, including conserved tombstones and monuments as well as new street signs, lighting, paved walkways & roadways and interpretive signage will be completed in the fall of 2009. Many exciting and noticeable improvements are in progress. You can join the Nashville City Cemetery Association in continuing to help to preserve this fragile historic site by becoming a member, attending our tours and events, volunteering, and/or making donations. We are always interested in hearing from descendants of those buried there.

Nashville City Cemetery is located at 1001 Fourth Avenue South, at the corner of Fourth Avenue South and Oak Street.  Click here for map.

Nashville City Cemetery, under the supervision of the Metro Board of Parks & Recreation, is open daily.

New interpretive signage and new tour brochures are being prepared and will be on-site in the fall of 2009.

Nashville City Cemetery books are still available. Learn about the history of the cemetery
and promote awareness through your purchase.


The Nashville City Cemetery Association, Inc. is a membership organization that works to
protect, preserve, restore and raise public awareness of the Nashville City Cemetery
in collaboration with the Historical Commission and Board of Parks and Recreation
of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee.
The Nashville City Cemetery Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 150733
Nashville, TN 37215

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