Elmwood Cemetery

Elmwood Cemetery, founded in 1852, is Memphis's oldest active cemetery, with some 80 acres and more than 75,000 burials, including many victims of the city's nineteenth-century yellow fever epidemics. Its landscape and monuments are open to visitors, and the cemetery hosts docent-led history tours and evening events that touch on the city's ghost lore. Visitors have reported apparitions and unexplained sounds among the older sections; these are local accounts rather than documented events. Please treat it as the active burial ground it is.