Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery located in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. Still in use, it was established by a federal land grant on November 21, 1821. It was originally known simply as "The Graveyard" and later as "City Cemetery" before the present name was adopted in 1899. It is the final resting place of Confederate generals, former governors of Mississippi, mayors of Jackson, as well as other notable figures, the most recent of whom is internationally acclaimed author Eudora Welty. The graves of over 100 "unknown" Confederate soldiers are also located here. Greenwood Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Mississippi Landmark in 1984.[2][1]
Greenwood Cemetery | |
 A view of Greenwood Cemetery showing the graves of Confederate soldiers. | |
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| Location | Bounded by West, Davis, Lamar and George Sts., Jackson, Mississippi |
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| Coordinates | 32°18′30″N 90°11′02″W / 32.30833°N 90.18389°W |
| Built | 1822 |
| Website | www |
| NRHP reference No. | 84000474 |
| USMS No. | 049-JAC-0331-NR-ML |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | December 20, 1984[2] |
| Designated USMS | August 1, 1984[1] |
The "garden park" type cemetery contains the largest collection of everblooming "own root" (not grafted) antique and modern shrubs roses in the country – several hundred shrubs representing over 40 named cultivars – as well as numerous hardy bulbs and other flowering shrubs and trees.
Notable interments
editConfederate generals
edit- Daniel Weisiger Adams
- William Wirt Adams
- William Barksdale
- Samuel Wragg Ferguson
- Richard Griffith
- James Argyle Smith
Mississippi governors
edit- Albert Gallatin Brown
- John Isaac Guion
- Charles Lynch
- Alexander Gallatin McNutt
- George Poindexter
- Abram Marshall Scott
- William Lewis Sharkey
- William Forrest Winter
Others
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Mississippi Landmarks" (PDF). Mississippi Department of Archives and History. May 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 9, 2010. Retrieved May 12, 2009.
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
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