Greenwood Cemetery

Greenwood Cemetery is a garden as well as a burial ground. It holds what is described as the country's largest collection of everblooming own-root roses, several hundred shrubs of more than forty named cultivars, along with hardy bulbs and flowering trees. Before 1899 it was simply the Graveyard and then City Cemetery. Governors, Confederate generals and Jackson mayors are buried here, and so are more than a hundred unknown Confederate soldiers and, more recently, Eudora Welty. The cemetery was listed on the National Register and as a Mississippi Landmark in 1984.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Farish Street Historic District — 0.4 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 0.4 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Old Capitol Museum — 0.5 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 3.0 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• Mount Helm Baptist Church - Original Site — steps away
• Mt. Helm Baptist Church — steps away
• Church of Christ (Holiness) USA — steps away
• Smith Robertson School — 0.3 mi