Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville)
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a 206-acre (83 ha) cemetery located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is located approximately two miles East of downtown Nashville, and adjacent to the Catholic Calvary Cemetery. It is open to the public during daylight hours.
Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville)
Sign of Confederate Circle.
Stone Obelisk Marking Confederate Graves at Mt. Olivet Cemetery Confederate Circle, Nashville
Fireflies at Mt. Olivet as seen on a late June night.
Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham was an American planter and slave trader. She became the wealthiest woman in Tennessee and a plantation owner in her own right after the 1846 death of her first husband, Isaac Franklin. As a successful slave trader, he had used his wealth to purchase numerous plantations, lands, and slaves in Tennessee and Louisiana.
Portrait by William Brown Cooper
The Belmont Mansion.