Beck Cemetery in Chattanooga Tennessee contains a single memorial marker dedicated to all those who are known to be buried within the cemetery.
Beck Cemetery – Chattanooga Tennessee
Engulfed by an active golf course and residing adjecent to green Number 3, Beck Cemetery in Chattanooga Tennessee risked being forgotten forever.
Beck Cemetery dates back at least to the mid-1800’s when early settlers of Chattanooga who were involved in sawmills, passenger ferries, quarries, and produce trading founded this plot of land as a family cemetery. Shortly after World War II the cemetery was damaged. It laid neglected for decades until two local residents began independent efforts to rehabilitate the cemetery and pay homage to those buried there.
Beck Cemetery contains a single memorial marker dedicated to all those who are known to be buried within the cemetery.
Chattanooga Memorial Park Cemetery is a large, sprawling cemetery located within the town of Red Bank, Tennessee.
Chattanooga Memorial Park Cemetery
Name: Chattanooga Memorial Park Cemetery
State: Tennessee
Coordinates: 35 05’39.87N 85 18’07.01W
Chattanooga Memorial Park Cemetery is a large, sprawling cemetery located within the town of Red Bank, Tennessee. Red Bank lies entirely within Hamilton County, Tennessee and immediately adjecent to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Memorial Park is a rolling
Chattanooga Memorial Park Cemetery is one of my first experiments using GPS and Google Earth to map locations of individual grave sites within a cemetery.
I have been experimenting with using my GPS to record individual gravesites and take pictures of the headstones. Using a program called Google Earth I have been able to import the photographs and the GPS coordinates to give a visual representation of the location of each grave site.
This data is saved as a .kml (Keyhole Markup Language) file. To see the .kml file of the Memorial Park Cemetery, please install Google Earth and then download this file. This is an experiment only. Memorial Park Cemetery Map
Grave sites within Aetna Cemetery date back to the 1860’s and are marked with crude hand-carved tombstones.
Name: Aetna Cemetery
State: Tennessee
Aetna Cemetery is a small volunteer maintained cemetery located atop Aetna Mountain just outside Haletown, Tennessee.
The grave sites within Aetna Cemetery date back to the 1860’s and are marked with crude hand-carved tombstones.
I love hand carved grave markers. They show the personality not only of the carver and the individual they are carved for but also for the community at large. I believe hand carved tombstones are treasures of the community and time from which they were made. Hand carved tombstones are in abundance in Aetna Cemetery.
Aetna Cemetery will probably never be described as “beautiful” but the rugged rural nature of this cemetery gives it a character hard to find in modern, landscaped, and perfectly manicured cemeteries. I don’t often feel a presence of the people who are buried in cemeteries I explore. However, when I visited Aetna Cemetery, I felt like I was not only observing burial sites but also the burials themselves. I felt the heartbreak of rural mountain people as they buried their sons, daughters, Mothers, and Fathers during driving rains of Tennessee Novembers and the blistering heat of an outdoor funeral in the South during the height of summer.
