City Cemetery

City Cemetery (1001 4th Avenue South at Oak St., 615/862-7970) opened in 1822 and is the oldest continually operated public cemetery in the city. According to the website the notables laid to rest here include "four of Nashville's founders, James and Charlotte Robertson & John and Ann Robertson Cockrill; four Confederate generals: Felix Zollicoffer, Bushrod Johnson, Richard Ewell, and Samuel Read Anderson; the man who named the American flag "Old Glory", Captain William Driver; Union Navy Commodore Paul Shirley; a Tennessee Governor, William Carroll; 15 mayors of Nashville, and two of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers, Mabel Lewis Imes and Ella Sheppard Moore."The cemetery contains about 23,000 graves and accepts burials only of anyone whose family plot has room. It is close to Fort Negley, and many Civil War veterans are buried here.

As recounted on the Battle of Nashville website, casualties from Shiloh and Stones River are laid to rest here. According to text on the site, "Blacks who fought for the Union were buried at a distance. In 1867, when the Nashville National Cemetery was dedicated, all of the Union dead were relocated and buried together there."

The Cemetery is open fro dawn to dusk. No admission is charged, and visitors can drive through the grounds. Signs direct people to the graves of notable folks.