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First Presbyterian Church Cemetery

First Presbyterian Church Cemetery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The First Presbyterian Church Graveyard is the oldest graveyard in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Established in the 1790s, the graveyard contains the graves of some of Knoxville's most prominent early residents, including territorial governor and Constitutional Convention delegate William Blount and Knoxville founder James White.Jack Neely, The Marble City: A Photographic Tour of Knoxville's Graveyards (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), pp. xvi-xix. In 1996, the graveyard was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Read more on Wikipedia

• type: NRHP
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Source: en.wikipedia.org