Greenwood Cemetery is situated at 1428 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States.

[3] In 1887 he conceived the idea of establishing a cemetery for African Americans on 37 acres (15 ha) of land near Buttermilk Ridge at Elm Hill Road.

Its purpose was to provide low cost, first class burial plots for African-American residents of Nashville.

[5]) When Taylor died in 1931 he was interred at Greenwood after a full week of memorial activities.

Other notable individuals interred there include Arna Bontemps, William Edmondson (sculptor), Charles S. Johnson, John Merritt, James C. Napier,[7] DeFord Bailey, Marshall Keeble, Mattie E. Coleman, Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson, and John Houston Burrus.