Woodlawn Memorial Park (Nashville, Tennessee)

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Woodlawn Memorial Park is one of the largest cemeteries in Nashville, known as a site where many prominent country music personalities are buried including Porter Wagoner, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Eddy Arnold, and Marty Robbins. It is located 660 Thompson Lane, a site rich in history. The land was originally a Revolutionary War land grant of 968 acres given to John Topp in 1788, eight years before Tennessee became a US state. In 1836 it became known as "Melrose" when US Senator Alexander Barrow purchased it and built a fine mansion with that name. The property served as a field hospital in 1865 during American Civil War Battle of Nashville. The site was established as a cemetery in the 1930s, and in 1993 the property, then reduced to 205 acres, was acquired by Roesch-Patton Corporation. As of 2006, the cemetery, along with Woodlawn-Roesch-Patton Funeral Home, is owned by Service Corporation International. Among those interred or entombed in the cemetery, there are many...

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