Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery


Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Corner of Cemetery and Commerce Sts., Grenada, Mississippi
Coordinates	33°46′28″N 89°48′39″W / 33.77444°N 89.81083°W / 33.77444; -89.81083Coordinates: 33°46′28″N 89°48′39″W / 33.77444°N 89.81083°W / 33.77444; -89.81083
Area	8.5 acres (3.4 ha)
Architectural style	Gothic;Romanesque;Classical
MPS	Grenada MRA
NRHP Reference #	87002341^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 20, 1988

The Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery, 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 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. And it suffered a fire in 1855 which burned about half of the town's buildings.^[3]^:8 And soon after the fall of Vicksburg, Grenada was 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, of a town of about 2,000 total population.^[3]^:10-11

References

1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Philip Thomason and Miranda Roche (May 27, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Grenada Multiple Resource Area: Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved November 15, 2016. (3 pages) with three photos from 1987
1 2 3 Philip Thomason and Miranda Roche (May 27, 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Grenada Multiple Resource Area" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved November 15, 2016. (17 pages)

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