Woodlawn Memorial Park (Nashville, Tennessee)

Woodlawn Memorial Park is one of the largest cemeteries in Nashville, known as a site where many prominent country music personalities are buried including Porter Wagoner, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, and Eddy Arnold.

In 1836 it became known as "Melrose" when US Senator Alexander Barrow purchased it and built a fine mansion with that name.

The property served as a field hospital in 1865 during American Civil War Battle of Nashville.

[1] The site was established as a cemetery in the 1930s, and in 1993 the property, then reduced to 205 acres, was acquired by Roesch-Patton Corporation.

[1] Among those interred or entombed in the cemetery, there are many prominent members of Nashville's country music industry.