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Odd Fellows Cemetery, one of Knoxville’s first African-American cemeteries, was neglected and overgrown. In 2009, a community restoration effort began with the University of Tennessee School of Architecture, the volunteer-based Knoxville ReAnimation Coalition and the City of Knoxville.
15 kwi 2022 · The Knoxville Reanimation Coalition is reclaiming many missing names with its recent Community Pause initiative. Located in East Knoxville, Odd Fellows Cemetery was established in 1880.
16 lut 2023 · Community members work on memorial in Odd Fellows cemetery, a historic Black cemetery in East Knoxville near Morningside and Five Points.
22 lut 2022 · Explore the rich African-American history of Knoxville, Tennessee. See the historic sites of Oddfellows Cemetery, Eastport Cemetery, and Crestview Cemetery.
Knoxville’s first dedicated African-American cemetery, which had once been neglected since 1880, is in a process of restoration and reclamation.
Located on Bethel Avenue in East Knoxville since c. 1880 is the Odd Fellows Cemetery, an African-American fraternal and benevolent cemetery. The Odd Fellows, the Daughters of Zion, and the Good Samaritans purchased the property to create the joint cemetery.
14 lut 2015 · Odd Fellows Cemetery. This cemetery was established in 1880 by the Banner Lodge Chapter of the Odd Fellows Fraternal Order. The cemetery was enlarged by the Daughters of Zion in 1881, the Good Samaritans in 1884, and the Silver Moon Chapter of the Odd Fellows in 1885. It is th.
