Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee

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Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee is a historic burial ground known as the resting place of many prominent political, civic, and cultural figures from the region.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery
historic cemetery
country United States of America
foundedBy Nashville civic leaders
foundedIn 1856
governedBy cemetery association or board of trustees
hasBurial Civil War figures from Tennessee
Confederate soldiers
James K. Polk family members
Nashville mayors
Tennessee governors
U.S. senators from Tennessee
business leaders from Nashville
religious leaders from Tennessee
hasCoordinateLocation 36.15°N, 86.73°W (approximate)
hasFeature Victorian-era funerary art
family mausoleums
historic monuments
monumental grave markers
ornamental landscaping
section for Confederate burials
hasSection family plots of prominent Nashville families
sections organized by denomination or family
hasUse public burial ground
heritageDesignation National Register of Historic Places
surface form: National Register of Historic Places listing

historic district
locatedIn Southern United States
surface form: American South

Davidson County, Tennessee
Nashville
surface form: Nashville, Tennessee

Tennessee
namedAfter Mount of Olives
surface form: Mount of Olives (biblical reference)
nearby Nashville National Cemetery
Nashville
surface form: downtown Nashville
notableFor burials of cultural figures from Tennessee
burials of prominent Nashville civic leaders
burials of prominent Tennessee political figures
openingDate 1856
operatedAs private cemetery
partOf historic resources of Nashville
religiousAffiliation Christian tradition (historical context)
significance important site in Nashville’s cultural history
important site in Nashville’s political history
repository of Tennessee elite family burials
subjectOf Civil War–era histories of Nashville
local historical studies of Nashville
tourismType cemetery tourism site
heritage tourism site

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Joseph W. Byrns burial place Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee