Thread: If you appreciate beautiful graveyards...

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For people that appreciate the beauty of old cemeterys and are looking for tombstone ideas...

Here in Knoxville is a cemetery called Old Gray which was established in 1850. I have always been in awe of the old stones, monuments and crypts there. Here are some pics I took one day. The file sizes are large to maintain detail so I only put a few here. You can see more on my photobucket link if you want at:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nced%20Photos/

And here's a link to more Old Gray info if you're interested:
http://www.discoveret.org/oldgray/

A random crypt:


A random overview:


A HUGE celtic cross. The name MEAD is well above your head.


Just to give some scale to some of the obelisks, I made hubby pose by one...

Just breathtaking!I love all your pictures.Thanks for sharing.

Wow! Really great photos! It's amazing how big that one is!

Wow, that is some cemetary. Such beauty in those stones. Thanks for sharing.

thanks for posting! i love old cemeteries!

***Making mental note--MUST stop by Old Gray cemetery next time we're driving through Knoxville!!***

That's a beautiful place Cassie, I sure am glad to know about it now. Knoxville isn't all that far away for us...thanks for posting the pictures!

Thank you, thank you, thank you Cassie! Now I've got my fix for the day...
This one is beautiful and the grave stones are so different from the ones I've seen here in Europe. The tower with the watcher is really singular.

Cassiewhat a beautiful cemetary.Thank you for posting the pictures! I actually just found one in town with simular style stones and statues, but there is snow every where, can't see as good as I would like, so will go back in better weather, it is huge, on both sides of a street.I love walking around old cemetaries so much. there is a cool crypt, like a pyramid, I will have to get back to see. I will try to get pics also. I saw a sad thing though, a beautiful old crypt had been burned, it was stone, but with a regular type roof from the late 1800's, and there was fire damage, and black on the stones around the doors from fire. What kind of person does that? I don't care how young, drunk or high you are, you are sick and twisted to do that.

Beautiful shots!! By the way, just got back from vacation/house hunting (haunting?) up in the Haywood County area of North Carolina. Went to see a house that was perfect and had been on the market for over a year. Wondered why it hadn't sold......

When my husband and I got there to see it, we found out why no one would buy this home....apparently, there is a little private cemetary right behind it and next to it. Literally, you open the master bedroom window downstairs and you are viewing the stones. This cemetary pre-dates the Civil War (or the War Between the States or the Late Unpleasantness, whichever you prefer) and is still currently in use. My son thought it was the coolest thing in the world and my husband wondered if he could ever take a shower in the house! I, of course, had no problem with it. However, considering the fact I drive a black PT Cruiser with a Haunted Mansion license plate that says "Doom Bugy" on the front, I wonder what our neighbors would think.....especially when I decorate for Halloween....

Fabulous pictures. I am a genealogist so I take a lot of cemetery pictures. When we took my mother to a family reunion in Nebraska several years ago, my siblings just rolled their eyes when I begged for just one day to visit the cemeteries of our ancestors while we were there. My Mother's family was from Bohemia and Germany. It was fascinating to visit the old pioneer cemeteries and I was fortunate to find a person who interpreted all the headstones of family members in the Bohemian National and German cemeteries. My siblings gained a new perspective on hanging out in graveyards....they really can be a thing of beauty. Thank you for sharing these great photos.