Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery
Grenada, Italy
The Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery, located at the corner of Cemetery and Commerce Streets in Grenada, Mississippi, is a historic cemetery. It includes Gothic architecture, Romanesque architecture, Classical architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 for it
s architectural criteria. The Confederate section contains about 150 graves of Confederate soldiers who died in the Grenada area. The cemeteries may contain burials from several specific calamities. Grenada suffered a tornado on May 7, 1846, which destroyed 112 houses and killed 21 persons. It also suffered a fire in 1855 which burned about half of the town's buildings. Soon after the fall of Vicksburg, Grenada was the site of a Union cavalry raid on August 18 and 19, 1863, which overwhelmed a token defensive force and destroyed the town's railway depot, railyard buildings, eighty locomotives and 200 freight cars. The cemetery may also include burials of victims of a devastating Yellow Fever epidemic in 1878, which killed at least 363 individuals—including the mayor—in a town of about 2,000 residents.
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