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Historic Green Hill Cemetery (2 plots $5,000 total) (Waynesville, NC)
129 Legion Drive near Main Street
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ADDRESS: 129 Legion Drive, Waynesville, North Carolina 28786
LOCATION OF PLOTS: Section 21, Lot 30 includes two burial plots, each measuring 8ft x 10ft, underneath an old holly tree.
If interested, please send email with your questions and your phone number so owners can contact you.
HISTORY OF GREEN HILL CEMETERY
Green Hill Cemetery in Waynesville, North Carolina, was established in 1811. The cemetery occupies 26 acres at the south end of Main Street. The earliest documented reference to the graveyard occurred when Revolutionary War Gen. Thomas Love, brother of the town’s founder, Col. Robert Love, sold land in 1826 to Ezekiel Brown that included an exception for an existing cemetery. The site is owned and operated by the Town of Waynesville and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has served as the resting place for many of Waynesville’s early leaders, notable figures, and community members, and remains an active municipal cemetery with burial plots, a columbarium, and an urn garden.
Most prominent of those buried at Green Hill, besides Col. Love (1760-1845), is Confederate Col. William Holland Thomas (1805-1893), the “white chief” of the Eastern Cherokees. Other pioneers are congressmen James Moody and William T. Crawford, hotel owner and town promoter S. C. Satterthwaite, and William Greer (1909-1985), the Secret Service chauffeur for President John F. Kennedy on the day of his 1963 assassination in Dallas. The author Caroline Miller (1903-1992), winner of the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction “Lamb in His Bosom”, is buried in the newer section of Green Hill. The father of author Thomas Wolfe, Asheville stonecutter William Oliver Wolfe, provided the cemetery's eight pieces of "funeral art" made of stone imported from Italy.