Greenwood Cemetery - Jackson MS
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N 32° 18.359 W 090° 10.987
15S E 765228 N 3577838
Greenwood Cemetery - Jackson MS
Waymark Code: WM5J0N
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 01/11/2009
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Greenwood Cemetery is the oldest landmark in Jackson. Authorized by the Mississippi Legislature on January 1, 1823, it was later expanded from six to twenty-two acres and given its present name. Among those buried here are numerous governors, public officials, teachers, clergy and Confederate soldiers. In 2001, acclaimed author Eudora Welty was buried here. Listed in the National Register o Historic Places, Greenwood was the main cemetery during Jackson's first fifty years of existence.
Date Installed:: 2008
Organization that placed the object:: Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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