Old Salem Cemetery in Jackson, Tennessee

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Get directions 160 Cotton Grove Road
Jackson, Tennessee, USA

Coordinates: 35.62931, -88.76635
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The cemetery is located northwest behind the roadside Civil War memorial for the 'Battle of Salem Cemetery'. Situated on the northwest side of Cotton Grove Road, about 0.3 mile from the junction of this road with North Pkwy E.

The Methodist Episcopal Church had a dedicated following in the early pioneer settlement of Madison County. (The county was established by the state legislature on November 7, 1821, from former Chickasaw Indian territory, having been temporarily under the jurisdiction of Stewart County in Middle Tennessee.) One of the earliest local camp-grounds was located some three and a half miles from the court square in the Madison county seat, Jackson. There was also located here a small Methodist meetinghouse, evidently built of hewn logs. The meetinghouse and camp-gound were known as SALEM. The earliest known mention of the Salem meetinghouse appeared in a Jackson newspaper in the summer of 1824, when it was announced that a camp-meeting would begin there on July 16 and would continue for several days.