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Cemetery: Old Mount Hermon
Cemetery
Other:
Sign: Yes
Street: 123 Hart Road
City: Shelbyville
Township:
County: Bedford
State: Tennessee
Nation: United States of America
Zip: 37160
lat_ns: N
lat_h:
lat_mmss:
long_ew: W
long_h:
long_mmss:
Status: Inactive
Size: Small
Directions: From Shelbyville, go South on US Hwy 231. From the
point here the highway changes from 4-lane to 2-lane, go 5.3
miles and turn left on Hawthorne Road. Stay on Hawthorne Road
until it ends at Mt. Herman Road. Turn left, the Cemetery is
about a mile on the left.
Type: Road-public
Location: Rural
Terrain: Level
Watersource: No
Features: Only a few tombstones are still present.
Property: Private
Access: Open
Enclosure: None
Gate: None
Established: 1830
Gravestones: 84
Oldest: 1857
Newest: 1975
Removed: Unknown
Relocated: No
Repairs: Yes
Methods: Other
Restoration: Yes
Association: Yes
Records: Yes
Inventory: No
Availability:
Landscaping: No
Paths: No
Trees: No
Crypts: No
Fencing: Yes
Brickwork: No
Ironwork: No
Sculpture: No
Fountains: No
Roads: No
Buildings: No
Cement: Yes
Granite: Yes
Marble: Yes
Native: Unsure
Slate: Unsure
Others: Unsure
Wood: No
Materials: No
Architectural: No
Angels: Unsure
Draperies: No
Fraternal: No
Hands: Unsure
Lambs: Unsure
Monograms: Unsure
Plants: Unsure
Photos: No
Religious: Yes
Scrollwork: Unsure
Urns: Unsure
Carvings: Unsure
Condition: Cemetery neglected
Unmarked: Yes
Broken: Yes
Toppled: No
Disintegrating: Yes
Buried: Yes
Weather: No
Pollution: No
Vandalized: Yes
Report: No
VA1:
VA2:
VA3: Gravestones-Stolen
VA4:
VA5:
Overgrowth: None
Overgrowth1:
Overgrowth2:
Overgrowth3:
Overgrowth4:
GroundCover: Yes
Moss:
Vines:
Drainage: Good
Problem1: Encroachment
Problem2: Apathy
Owner: Cemetery
Use: Agricultural
Bordering: Agricultural
Change: Unknown
Reason: Agriculture
Visited: Unknown
Archeology: Unknown
Habitat: Unknown
Contacted: Only some descendants
Surnames:
Other_Information:
Support:
Sam Hart, President, Friends of Old Mount Hermon Cemetery, P.O.
Box 831, Shelbyville TN 37160; email friends@mounthermoncemetery.org
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Name: Sam Hart
Email: s_amhart@att.net
Date: Jan 7, 2004 |
