3568 Townes Ave., Memphis, Tennessee. County/parish: Shelby.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 30, 1996. NRIS 96001233.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing site. 2 contributing structures. 3 contributing objects.Also known as:
Memphis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the Nutbush neighborhood in northeast Memphis, Tennessee. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 44.2 acres (17.9 ha), and as of the end of 2007, had 42,184 interments.
Several Civil War battlefield cemeteries were transferred to the Memphis National Cemetery after the war.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77835558