Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery

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 its architectural criteria.^[1]

Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Confederate Cemetery in 2019
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Location	Corner of Cemetery and Commerce Sts., Grenada, Mississippi
Coordinates	33°46′29″N 89°48′39″W
Area	8.5 acres (3.4 ha)
Architectural style	Gothic;Romanesque;Classical
MPS	Grenada MRA
NRHP reference No.	87002341[1]
Added to NRHP	January 20, 1988

The Confederate section contains about 150 graves of Confederate soldiers who died in the Grenada area.^[2]

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.^[3]: 8 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.^[3]: 8

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.^{[3]: 10–11}

Odd Fellows Cemetery