Old Gray Cemetery

Old Gray Cemetery is a Tennessee historical marker in Knoxville, Knox County.

N. Broadway, Knoxville

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Old Gray Cemetery, incorporated in 1850, is the resting place of William G. Brownlow, Tennessee governor and U.S. Senator, as well two other U.S. Senators, eight U.S. Congressmen, 26 mayors of Knoxville, and numerous ambassadors, judges, editors, artist, authors, educators, military leader, physicians, and industrialist.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Kentucky (T.G. Bradford, 1838) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1844 · Kentucky (H. S. Tanner, 1844) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Knoxville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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