Tour of Historic Pleasant Gardens Cemetery, Saturday, November 8, 2014
Saturday, November 8
2 p.m.
Tour of Historic Pleasant Gardens Cemetery
Rowe Road, Chattanooga 37411
Guide
LaFrederick Thirkill will be giving a tour of historic Pleasant Gardens
Cemetery. Founded in 1890, the cemetery is the burial site for many of
the Chattanooga’s early African-American community leaders, as well as
Ed Johnson, the black man who was hung by a lynch mob on the Walnut
Street Bridge in 1906, and two of the Scottsboro Boys.
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