It is located approximately two miles East of downtown Nashville, and adjacent to the Catholic Calvary Cemetery.

The Mount Olivet Cemetery was established by Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley and John Buddeke in 1856.

[1] In the 1870s, a chapel designed in the Gothic Revival architectural style by Hugh Cathcart Thompson was built as an office.

[1] Women organized such memorial associations and raised money for interment of Confederate soldiers in major cities across the South and areas where there were concentrations of bodies.

[1] A plaque in memory of Nashvillians who died in World War I was dedicated by General Hugh Mott in 1924.