Cedar Grove Cemetery

Cedar Grove Cemetery was originally established as a "colored cemetery" in the early nineteenth century on land beside a trail that became known as Gap Creek Road. Its remote, rocky terrain often required dynamite to clear burial plots. Buried there are members of some of Carter County's early African-American families, war veterans, church leaders, and Carter County's last known slave, Josephine "Aunt Jo" Taylor, who had been enslaved by Nat Taylor, the father of Tennessee governors Alf and Bob Taylor.

Elizabethton, Tennessee · United States