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Historic veterans cemetery in Davidson County, Tennessee
United States historic place
Nashville National Cemetery
is a
United States National Cemetery
located in
Madison
, a suburb of
Nashville
, in
Davidson County, Tennessee
. Administered by the
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
, it encompasses 64.5 acres (26.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had over 34,000 interments.
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The initial land for Nashville National Cemetery was acquired in July 1866. A tract of 45 acres was transferred to the United States from Morton B. Howell, Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Davidson County, in accordance with a decree of the court in the case of Anderson v. McRoberts & McKee, docket # 2153. The deed was recorded in January 1867, Davidson County deed book 38, p. 648. Another 17 acres was conveyed by the Clerk and Master, from the same case, in January 1867 and recorded in Davidson County deed book 38, p. 650. In October 1879 a small tract was deeded from J. Watts Judson and recorded in Davidson County deed book 63, p. 360.
The original interments were transferred from the Nashville City Cemetery, veteran hospital cemeteries around the region, as well as battlefield cemeteries, such as those from the
Battle of Franklin
. There are over four thousand unknowns buried in Nashville National Cemetery.
Nashville National Cemetery was listed in the
National Register of Historic Places
in 1996.
Notable interments
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