May 11, 2013 – Master Gardeners' Tour – 10:00-11:30 a.m. –CLICK HERE for details.

Memorial Day Dash Press Release Available
CLICK HERE for Registration Form and Information.

FOR COMPLETE UPCOMING TOUR INFORMATION CLICK HERE

To schedule an event at the City Cemetery CLICK HERE for Metro Historical Commission application

CLICK HERE for suggestions from the
Metro Historical Commission before you make a visit to Nashville City Cemetery and CLICK HERE for helpful parking suggestions

CLICK HERE for newer entries to site and current ones that might be helpful

Looking for your ancestor at City Cemetery?
CLICK HERE for a helpful Tutorial about how to use the features of this website

New tour brochures and new interpretive signage are now on-site. We encourage you to use these resources for self-guided tours.

To contact the Association to request a
group tour, CLICK HERE

CLICK HERE for Spring 2013
NCCA Newsletter

The Nashville City Cemetery is open for public visitation from Dawn to Dusk. Please call the phone number on the front entrance sign if the gate is locked between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Opened in 1822, the City Cemetery is the oldest continuously operated public cemetery in Nashville.

A walk through the cemetery is truly a walk through Nashville's history. The gravestones tell the stories of individuals and families from the 1820s to the present day.

In response to the disrepair, vandalism, and neglect over many decades, former Mayor Bill Purcell and the Metro Council approved the Mayor's Capital Budget request for a $3M project to restore the City Cemetery. The Restoration, including conserved tombstones and monuments as well as new street signs, lighting, paved walkways & roadways and interpretive signage will be completed in the fall of 2009. Many exciting and noticeable improvements are in progress. You can join the Nashville City Cemetery Association in continuing to help to preserve this fragile historic site by becoming a member, attending our tours and events, volunteering, and/or making donations. We are always interested in hearing from descendants of those buried there.

Nashville City Cemetery is located at 1001 Fourth Avenue South, at the corner of Fourth Avenue South and Oak Street. Click here for map.

Nashville City Cemetery, under the supervision of the Metro Historical Commission, is open daily for public visitation from Dawn to Dusk. Please call the phone number on the front entrance sign if the gate is locked between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

The Nashville City Cemetery Association is pleased to be partnering with  the Community Foundation's GivingMatters website.  Click here to see the listing.