Mount Ararat Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Orr Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is on Elm Hill Pike, 0.2 miles east of Murfreesboro Pike (U.S. 41), on the left when traveling east.)

Tennessee was the last state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. It joined the Confederacy in June 1861, but a significant portion of its population remained loyal to the Union, leading to a bitter and divided conflict within the state.