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Oakland Cemetery (Trenton, Tennessee)
Oakland Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Trenton, Tennessee. Established in the Antebellum era, it includes two Confederate monuments, and a third monument to Trenton Cotton Mills employees. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The smaller Ward cemetery lies at the south-western corner of Oakland cemetery. History The cemetery was established in 1825. With In the aftermath of the American Civil War of 1861–1865, many local veterans of the Confederate States Army were buried here. By 1900, the United Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the construction of a Confederate monument in their memory, with a Bonnie Blue Flag in the center. There is a second Confederate memorial with the names of CSA veterans in the cemetery: an inscription on the gazebo, enhanced by a metal plaque commissioned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans circa 1990. A third monument was erected by the Dyersburg Corporation for their employees at the historic Trenton Cotton Mills ...
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Trenton, Tennessee
Trenton is the county seat and fourth largest city of Gibson County, Tennessee, Gibson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 4,264 at the 2010 census, down from 4,683 in 2000. History Trenton was established in 1824 as a county seat for the newly-created Gibson County. The site was initially home to a trading post known as "Gibson-Port" that was operated by Thomas Gibson, a brother of the county's namesake, Colonel John Gibson. The city is named for Trenton, New Jersey. Geography Trenton is located in central Gibson County at (35.973627, −88.941569). U.S. Route 45W passes through the east side of the city, bypassing downtown. It leads north to Union City, Tennessee, Union City and south to Jackson, Tennessee, Jackson. Milan, Tennessee, Milan is to the southeast via Tennessee State Route 77, Bradford, Tennessee, Bradford is to the northeast via Tennessee State Route 54, State Route 54, Alamo, Tennessee, Alamo is to the southwest, also via State Route 54, an ...
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Cemeteries On The National Register Of Historic Places In Tennessee
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both, continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the interment areas ...
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Buildings And Structures Completed In 1825
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African-American Cemeteries In Tennessee
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1825 Establishments In Tennessee
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National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Gibson County, Tennessee
__NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Gibson County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Gibson County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. There are 20 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. Current listings See also * List of National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee * National Register of Historic Places listings in Tennessee References {{Gibson County, Tennessee Gibson Gibson may refer to: People * Gibson (surname) Businesses * Gibson Brands, Inc., an American manufacturer of guitars, other musical instruments, and audio equipment * Gibson Technology, and English automotive and motorsport company based * Gi ... Buildings and structu ...
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Pleasant Moorman Miller
Pleasant Moorman Miller, (unknown birth - 1849) was an American politician who represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. Biography Miller was born the son of a tavern owner in Lynchburg, Virginia. Miller studied law under Judge Archibald Stewart of Staunton before moving to Rogersville, Tennessee, in 1796. Following his move from Rogersville to Knoxville in 1800, where he practiced law with Thomas Emmerson, Miller was married to Mary Louisa Blount, daughter of Tennessee statesman William Blount. He became known as one of the best criminal trial lawyers in Tennessee because of his wit and oratorical skills. Career Elected chairman, Miller served as one of the commissioners for the government of Knoxville in 1801 and 1802. He was a leader of the Blount-Jackson political faction, and elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1809 to March 4, 1811. He moved to west Tennessee in approximately 1824 and was cha ...
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Robert Porter Caldwell
Robert Porter Caldwell (December 16, 1821 – March 12, 1885) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th congressional district of Tennessee. Biography Caldwell was born in Adair County, Kentucky, on December 16, 1821. He moved with his parents to Henry County, Tennessee, and a few years later moved to Obion County. He attended Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, and studied law at Troy. Caldwell married Harriett James Wilkins who was born October 11, 1829, in Maury County, Tennessee, and died August 8, 1865. They were married on March 15, 1851, in Trenton. They had 5 children. Career Admitted to the bar, Caldwell commenced practice in Trenton in 1845. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1847 and 1848. He was a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1855 and 1856. He was elected attorney general for the sixteenth judicial circuit of Tennessee in 1858. During the Civil War, Caldwell was a major in th ...
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National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ...
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Munson Rufus Hill
Munson Rufus Hill (May 4, 1821 – October 24, 1867) was an American lawyer, politician and Confederate officer. Hill was born in Monroe County, New York. In 1839 he moved to Dyersburg, Tennessee, and then Trenton, Tennessee, ten years later. He attended Cazenovia Seminary in New York. In his antebellum career, he served as a lawyer and in the Tennessee state legislature, and married Elizabeth Hale. Hill was appointed colonel with the 47th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. He resigned his colonelship on January 5, 1863, due to "remittant icfever" and gastroenteritis. Later that year, he lost a race for the Confederate States Congress. Hill died on October 24, 1867, of yellow fever in Memphis. He is buried at Oakland Cemetery in Trenton, Tennessee Trenton is the county seat and fourth largest city of Gibson County, Tennessee, Gibson County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 4,264 at the 2010 census, down from 4,683 in 2000. History Trenton was established in 1824 a ...
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Sons Of Confederate Veterans
The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is an American neo-Confederate nonprofit organization of male descendants of Confederate soldiers The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ... that commemorates these ancestors, funds and dedicates monuments to them, and promotes the Pseudohistory, pseudohistorical Lost Cause of the Confederacy, Lost Cause ideology and corresponding white supremacy. The SCV was founded on July 1, 1896, in Richmond, Virginia, by R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1 of the United Confederate Veterans, Confederate Veterans. Its headquarters is at Elm Springs (house), Elm Springs in Columbia, Tennessee. Notable members of the organization include former President Harry S. Truman, former senators Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Absalom Willis Robertson, political commen ...
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