Old City Cemetery is located at Broadway and Riverside ... which has a portrait of Robinson that is not on display. In time, Robinson became law partner of Edwin B. Crocker; negotiated deals ...

His time as an officer led him to the cemetery. And in many ways ... "It reminded me of an old oppressive plantation," he said. Indeed, the prisoners were laboring on the same lands where the ...

Old Gray Cemetery was founded in 1850 and dedicated ... Gray's Elegy was a favorite poem in the homes and schools. It was a melancholy time in Knoxville anyway. The town was struggling through ...

Notable figures like Anderson Bonner, who was born into enslavement and later amassed over 2,000 acres of land, uncommon for a Black landowner at the time, were buried in the cemetery. Other ...