Other: Mountain View Cemetery

Sign: No

Street: County Road 420, about halfway down the road on the left

City: Athens or Mt. Harmony Community

Township:

County: McMinn

State: Tennessee

Nation: United States of America

Zip: 37303

Status: Abandoned

Size: Small

Directions: Turn on County Road 405 from Mt. Harmony Community and then go straight to county road 420 and then about halfway down the road on the left is the cemetery.

Type: Road-public

Location: Rural

Terrain: Level

Watersource: No

Features: many trees and shrubs

Property: Private

Access: Open

Enclosure: Fence-Broken

Gate: None

Established: 1877

Gravestones: 32

Oldest: May 18, 1877

Newest: July 22, 1975

Removed: Unknown

Relocated: No

Repairs: Unsure

Methods: Adhesives

Restoration: No

Association: No

Records: Yes

Inventory: Yes

Availability: McMinn County, Tennessee, Cemeteries, Samme and Marvin Templin, myself for the records

Landscaping: Unsure

Paths: No

Trees: Yes4

Crypts: Unsure

Fencing: Yes

Brickwork: No

Ironwork: No

Sculpture: No

Fountains: No

Roads: No

Buildings: No

Cement: Unsure

Granite: Unsure

Marble: Unsure

Native: Unsure

Slate: Unsure

Others: Unsure

Wood: Unsure

Materials: Unsure

Architectural: Unsure

Angels: Unsure

Draperies: Unsure

Fraternal: Unsure

Hands: Unsure

Lambs: Unsure

Monograms: Unsure

Plants: Unsure

Photos: No

Religious: Unsure

Scrollwork: Unsure

Urns: Unsure

Carvings: Unsure

Condition: Cemetery neglected

Unmarked: Unsure

Broken: Yes

Toppled: Yes

Disintegrating: No

Buried: Unsure

Weather: Unknown

Pollution: Yes

Vandalized: No

Report: Yes

VA1:

VA2:

VA3:

VA4:

VA5:

Overgrowth:

Overgrowth1:

Overgrowth2: Graves-Disturbing

Overgrowth3: Gravestones-Disturbing

Overgrowth4:

GroundCover: Yes

Moss: Yes

Vines: Yes

Drainage: Problem-Constant

Problem1:

Problem2:

Owner: Private

Use: Industrial

Bordering: Woods

Change: Same

Reason: Roads

Visited: Rarely

Archeology: Unknown

Habitat: Yes

Contacted:

name: Tyler Forrest

Email: amazza@bellsouth.net

Date: October 24, 2002

Surnames:

Burn Farrell McKnight McManaman Moore Plemons Samples Sewell Weeks

Other_Information:

The cemetery was once probable a bueatiful cemetery. It is the cemetery of one of the more prominent and first families of McMinn County. I personally would like to see a association or board that would be responsible for the cemetery and could possibly clean it up.

Support:

name: Tyler Forrest

Email: a_mazza@bellsouth.net

Date: October 24, 2002