Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery

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Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery
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Confederate Cemetery in 2019
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LocationCorner of Cemetery and Commerce Sts., Grenada, Mississippi
Coordinates 33°46′29″N89°48′39″W / 33.77472°N 89.81083°W / 33.77472; -89.81083
Area8.5 acres (3.4 ha)
Architectural styleGothic;Romanesque;Classical
MPS Grenada MRA
NRHP reference No. 87002341 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 20, 1988

The Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery, located at the corner of Cemetery and Commerce Streets in Grenada, Mississippi, is a historic cemetery. It includes Gothic architecture, Romanesque architecture, Classical architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 for its architectural criteria. [1]

The Confederate section contains about 150 graves of Confederate soldiers who died in the Grenada area. [2]

The cemeteries may contain burials from several specific calamities. Grenada suffered a tornado on May 7, 1846, which destroyed 112 houses and killed 21 persons. It also suffered a fire in 1855 which burned about half of the town's buildings. [3] : 8  Soon after the fall of Vicksburg, Grenada was the site of a Union cavalry raid on August 18 and 19, 1863, which overwhelmed a token defensive force and destroyed the town's railway depot, railyard buildings, eighty locomotives and 200 freight cars. [3] : 8 

The cemetery may also include burials of victims of a devastating Yellow Fever epidemic in 1878, which killed at least 363 individuals—including the mayor—in a town of about 2,000 residents. [3] : 10–11 

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Odd Fellows Cemetery

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ Philip Thomason and Miranda Roche (May 27, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Grenada Multiple Resource Area: Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery". National Park Service . Retrieved November 15, 2016. (3 pages) with three photos from 1987
  3. 1 2 3 Philip Thomason and Miranda Roche (May 27, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Grenada Multiple Resource Area". National Park Service . Retrieved November 15, 2016. (17 pages)
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