Cedar Grove Cemetery - 1A 119 - Elizabethton, TN - Tennessee Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

Cedar Grove Cemetery was originally establsihed as a "colored cemetery" in the early nineteenth century on a tract of land adjacent to a trail that became known as Gap Creek Road. The remote and rocky terrain often required the use of dynamite o clear the areafor burials. Resting today at Cedar Grove are some of Carter County's early African-American families, war veterans, church leaders and Carter County's last know slave, the beloved Josephine "Aunt Jo" Taylor, a slave of Nat Taylor, the father of Alf and Bob Taylor, governors of Tennessee.

Marker Name: Cedar Grove Cemtery Marker Location: Roadside Type of Marker: Other Marker Number: 1A 119 Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker: THC

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