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Chattanooga, TN
Mizpah
Congregation
Cemetery
3rd and Collins Street
Chattanooga
,
TN
423-267-9771
Established in 1866 by the Hebrew Benevolent Association,
Mizpah
Congregation
Cemetery
became the first Jewish cemetery in
Chattanooga
, serving the congregation whose name it bears. The cemetery is located adjacent to the Citizen’s and
Confederate
Cemetery
, but the two are separated by a small stone wall and fence. Soon after the establishment of
Mizpah
Cemetery
, the Hebrew Benevolent Association purchased a potter’s field for the purpose of exhuming Union and Confederate Jewish soldiers who died during the
Chattanooga
campaign and were buried locally. The soldiers were, indeed, exhumed and given appropriate burial in the potter’s field with full Jewish rites.
Though small,
Mizpah
Cemetery
is home to some of
Chattanooga
’s finest and most beautiful cemetery art, including a monument honoring Chattanooga Times and New York Times publisher, Adolph Ochs.
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