Greenwood Cemetery
Greenwood Cemetery is situated at 1428 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States. When opened in 1888, it was only the second cemetery in Nashville for African Americans.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Lane Motor Museum and Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Lane Motor Museum
Museum
Lane Motor Museum is an automobile museum in Nashville, Tennessee holding a collection of over 500 mostly European automobiles, with 150 vehicles displayed on any given day. Lane Motor Museum is situated 3,400 feet southwest of Greenwood Cemetery.
Mount Olivet Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: David Antis, CC BY 2.0.
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a 206-acre cemetery located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is located about two miles east of downtown Nashville, and adjacent to the Catholic Calvary Cemetery. It is open to the public during daylight hours. Mount Olivet Cemetery is situated 2,700 feet northwest of Greenwood Cemetery.
Buchanan’s Station
Cemetery
Buchanan's Station was a fortified stockade established around 1784 in Tennessee. Founded by Major John Buchanan, the settlement was located in what is today the Donelson neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee. Buchanan’s Station is situated 3,400 feet east of Greenwood Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Nashville and Nashville.
East Nashville
Suburb
East Nashville is an area east of downtown Nashville in Tennessee across the Cumberland River. The area is mostly residential and mixed-use areas with businesses lining the main boulevards. East Nashville is situated 2½ miles northwest of Greenwood Cemetery.
Nashville
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Nashville is the capital of the American state of Tennessee. With 716,000 residents in 2022, it is the state's largest city. Nashville is sometimes called the "Country Music Capital of the World" or more often "Music City, USA"; however, Nashville has done much to escape its country music image and become a regional center of culture and commerce.
Donelson
Suburb
Donelson is a neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee, about 6 mi east of downtown Nashville along U.S. Route 70. It is named in honor of John Donelson, co-founder of Nashville and father-in-law of Andrew Jackson, Nashvillian and seventh President of the United States. Donelson is situated 3½ miles east of Greenwood Cemetery.
Greenwood Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee
- Category: burial
- Location: Davidson, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.1458° or 36° 8′ 45″ northLongitude
-86.72487° or 86° 43′ 30″ westElevation
531 feet (162 metres)Open location code
868M47WG+83OpenStreetMap ID
way 207452117OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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In Other Languages
From German to Slovenian—“Greenwood Cemetery” goes by many names.
- German: “Greenwood Cemetery”
- Hausa: “Kabari na Greenwood (Nashville, Tennessee)”
- Hausa: “Kabari na Greenwood”
- Slovenian: “Greenwood Cemetery”
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