Courtland Cemetery, one of Alabama's oldest and most picturesque town cemeteries, was set aside as a burying ground by the Courtland Land Company in its original survey before the town's incorporation in 1819. Many of the area's earliest settlers and prominent leaders are buried here, including three Revolutionary War veterans. The cemetery also contains a number of unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers and the graves of three Union soldiers interred after an 1863 skirmish at the nearby railroad trestle, later enclosed behind a rock wall erected by townspeople. Older gravemarkers represent a variety of styles and types common in the 1800s and early 1900s, including simple upright stone slabs, table and box tombs, tall granite obelisks, Victorian-era statuary, and family plots enclosed with ornamental cast-iron fences. Older graves lie mostly in the southern part of the cemetery. After the Civil War, an African-American burial ground was established just east of the main cemetery, with the oldest graves in that section dating from the early 1900s.