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Program Description
Event Details
Join Laura Still for a stroll through the shady lanes of Knoxville's oldest and most picturesque burial ground.
Just north of downtown Knoxville, Old Gray Cemetery is a little-known historic jewel. Founded in 1850 as part of the rural park cemetery movement, it became a popular destination for carriage rides and picnics. The years of 1860 to 1910, when most of the graves were dug, were some of the most violent decades of Knoxville’s history, as well as the heyday of the local marble industry, when the fashion for elaborate monuments and statuary was at its zenith.
This tour will meet outside the gates of Old Gray Cemetery, located at 543 North Broadway. Parking is available around the corner on Tyson St. or across the street at Emory Place or St. John's Lutheran Church.
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