Old City Cemetery, McMinnville Tennessee
McMinnville, located 100 miles east of Nashville, Tennessee, was founded in 1810 and the first courthouse was completed in 1811. Like many rural county seats at that time, the town was a small trade center with government business at the new courthouse attracting customers. McMinnville was large enough, however, to have the only school of any consequence in Warren County, established in 1809. Local officials established the City Cemetery in 1813, the year that it received its first interment. It remained the town's only cemetery until the Civil War. Thus, the City Cemetery contains the graves of the earliest builders of the community of McMinnville, who were the first to buy lots around the courthouse, construct substantial brick buildings, open stores,
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