Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery
Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery | |
![]() Confederate Cemetery in 2019 | |
33°46′29″N 89°48′39″W / 33.77472°N 89.81083°W / 33.77472; -89.81083 | |
Area | 8.5 acres (3.4 ha) |
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Architectural style | Gothic;Romanesque;Classical |
MPS | Grenada MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 87002341[1] |
Added to NRHP | January 20, 1988 |
The Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery, at the corner of Cemetery and Commerce Streets in Grenada, Mississippi is a historic cemetery. It includes Gothic architecture, Romanesque architecture, Classical architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, for architectural criteria.[1]
The Confederate section contains about 150 graves of Confederate soldiers who died in the Grenada area.[2]
The cemeteries may contain burials from several specific calamities. Grenada suffered a tornado on May 7, 1846, which destroyed 112 houses and killed 21 persons. And it suffered a fire in 1855 which burned about half of the town's buildings.[3]: 8 And soon after the fall of Vicksburg, Grenada was site of a Union cavalry raid on August 18 and 19, 1863, which overwhelmed a token defensive force and destroyed the town's railway depot, railyard buildings, eighty locomotives and 200 freight cars.[3]: 8
The cemetery may also include burials of victims of a devastating Yellow Fever epidemic in 1878 which killed at least 363 individuals, including the mayor, of a town of about 2,000 total population.[3]: 10–11
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References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Philip Thomason and Miranda Roche (May 27, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Grenada Multiple Resource Area: Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery". National Park Service. Retrieved November 15, 2016. (3 pages) with three photos from 1987
- ^ a b c Philip Thomason and Miranda Roche (May 27, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Grenada Multiple Resource Area". National Park Service. Retrieved November 15, 2016. (17 pages)
External links
- Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery at Find a Grave
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Confederate Cemetery
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