Old Gray Cemetery

Just past Knoxville’s [1] scruffy Mission District—past the old 5th Avenue Hotel, a flophouse turned affordable housing project—is the Old Gray Cemetery (543 N. Broadway, 865/522-1425, www.discoveret.org/oldgray [2]). This 13-acre cemetery was established in 1850 and is the final resting place of hundreds of prominent and not-so-prominent city residents. It is a pleasant, wooded, park-like place—nice for a quiet stroll.

Among the buried are William “Parson” Brownlow, minister, journalist, governor and one of Tennessee’s most colorful historical characters; feminist Lizzie Crozier French; and C. C. Williams, the father of playwright Tennessee Williams.