First Presbyterian Church Cemetery
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.Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tennessee Theatre and Bijou Theatre.
Tennessee Theatre
Theater building
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The Tennessee Theatre is a movie palace in the downtown core of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. The theater opened in 1928 in the 1908 Burwell Building, considered Knoxville's first skyscraper. Tennessee Theatre is situated 340 feet west of First Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Bijou Theatre
Theater building
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The Bijou Theatre is a theater located in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Built in 1909 as an addition to the Lamar House Hotel, the theater has at various times served as performance venue for traditional theatre, vaudeville, a second-run moviehouse, a commencement stage for the city's African-American high school, and a pornographic movie theater. Bijou Theatre is situated 840 feet south of First Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Lawson McGhee Library
Library
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The Lawson McGhee Library is the main library of Knox County Public Library in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is located at 500 West Church Avenue in downtown Knoxville. It is currently the oldest, continuously operating public library in Tennessee. Lawson McGhee Library is situated 1,200 feet southwest of First Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown Knoxville and Old City.
Downtown Knoxville
Neighborhood
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Downtown Knoxville is the downtown area of Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. It contains the city's central business district and primary city and county municipal offices.
Old City
Quarter
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The Old City is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located at the northeast corner of the city's downtown area. Originally part of a raucous and vice-ridden section of town known as "The Bowery," the Old City has since been revitalized through extensive redevelopment efforts carried out during the 1980s through the present.
Knoxville
Knoxville, in Knox County, is the third-largest city in Tennessee. It is the home of the University of Tennessee's primary campus and site of the 1982 World's Fair.
First Presbyterian Church Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: oldest cemetery in Knoxville, Tennessee
- Category: burial
- Location: Knox, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.96458° or 35° 57′ 53″ northLongitude
-83.91635° or 83° 54′ 59″ westOpen location code
867RX37M+RFOpenStreetMap ID
way 1278860856OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q5453657
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In Other Languages
“First Presbyterian Church Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “ファースト・プレスビテリアン・チャーチ墓地”
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