Newly Revised 'Nashville City Cemetery' Now Available Online and in Bookstores

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Nashville City Cemetery—the history of a great city told in tombstones—is now available online and in bookstores in a new and more comprehensive second edition.

The 75-page book is filled with over 100 pictures, maps and fascinating facts about the founders, leaders and families of early Nashville and about the recent restoration of this Nashville treasure.

"The story of the cemetery chronicles the traditions, triumphs and tragedies of the Nashville community," says Dr. Bill McKee, Chairman of the Metropolitan Historical Commission. "Egalitarian from its founding, the cemetery has been open to influential and average citizens alike, as well as to persons of different religions and races."

Included in the second edition is a chapter that focuses on the $3 million restoration supervised by the Metropolitan Historical Commission and completed in 2010. The chapter features before and after photos of tombstones restored.  

Other new chapters provide interesting details about Nashville's African-Americans, both enslaved and free, and Civil War burials of both Confederate and Union soldiers.  There is more information, as well, on the city's early settlers, local and national politicians, soldiers who served in America's wars from the Revolutionary to World War II, prominent preachers and busy mothers who also managed to write books and establish orphanages.

Nashville City Cemetery, second edition, sells for $12 a copy and may be purchased via PayPal on the City Cemetery website at  www.thenashvillecitycemetery.org and at Metro Archives in the old Green Hills Library building, the Fort Negley Museum Store and Christ Church Bookstore at 9th and Broadway.

Books may be ordered by mail at a cost of $17 ($12 plus $5 for shipping and handling) from Nashville City Cemetery Assn./P. O. Box 150733/ Nashville, TN 37215.  Orders should include buyer's name, mailing address, email address, phone number, number of books ordered and a check for the total amount.

Proceeds from book sales go to the Nashville City Cemetery Association for the continuing restoration and documentation of the cemetery.  

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

Opened in 1822, the City Cemetery is the oldest continuously operated public cemetery in Nashville.  Open daily, it operates under the supervision of the Metropolitan Historical Commission.  

SOURCE The Nashville City Cemetery Association