East State Street at Georgia Ave, Bristol, Tennessee. County/parish: Sullivan.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 28, 2011. NRIS 11000142.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
East Hill Cemetery, also known as Maryland Hill, Round Hill, Rooster Hill, and Bristol City Cemetery, is a historic cemetery mainly located in Bristol, Tennessee; part of the cemetery extends across the state border into Bristol, Virginia. It is an American Civil War-era cemetery established in 1857, with sections for Confederate soldiers and veterans as well as a small section for African American burials. In 1995, the United Daughters of the Confederacy put up a small commemorative monument to the Civil War dead. Among its graves are the founders of the city, representatives of enslaved African-Americans, Civil War soldiers including those who died as a result of the war as well as those who survived the war, a Revolutionary War General of Militia Evan Shelby, and many who have made contributions to Bristol and the nation. It straddles the Tennessee–Virginia border.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
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