Mount Ararat Cemetery

Mount Ararat Cemetery is a Tennessee historical marker in Nashville, Davidson County.

Davidson Co Elm Hill Pike and Murfreesboro Rd., west of Fesslers Lane, Nashville, TN

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Mount Ararat, Nashville's first African-American cemetery, was officially opened in April 1869. The property was purchased on March 23, 1869, by the Colored Sons of Relief Number One and the Colored Benevolent Society. Lots went on sale on May 2, 1869. Notable persons interred here include some of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the Rev. Nelson Merry, and sculptor William Edmondson. After becoming a part of Greenwood Cemetery in 1983, Mount Ararat Cemetery became Greenwood Cemetery West in 1986.

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Historical maps covering this location

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)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Battle-field, Nashville, Tenn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Greenbrier, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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