We saw this roadside marker standing in the middle of a beautiful flowerbed and stopped to read it and then turned around and went back to find the cemetery.
This is the entrance to the cemetery that was incorporated in 1859. I'm not sure why 1860 is on the arch. Just to the left of the tower you can see a tall white monument surrounded by bushes. (Enlarge for a better view.) This is believed to be the Nation's first known Confederate monument dedicated in 1867.
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair."
I originally took this for Jeremiah's From The Ground Up project. I was impressed with the stone of this bell tower. They were probably gathered from the nearby river. The tower was built in 1925.
Looking out through the windows towards the mountains.
Looking out toward the front door. If you enlarge the photo you can see plaques on the wall. The tower is called the Parsons Bell Tower and Parsons is on the plaques. There were no visible signs of any remains having been buried inside the tower.
This is the Indian Mound. 
I have some Native American ancestry so this was a special find for me.
The age of the mound is astonishing to me.
The Smithsonian suggests it was built between 500 and 1000 AD. To stand there on that ground and imagine how long it had been there was very humbling.
Confederate Grave MarkerI saw quite a few of these scattered around the cemetery. This side of the marker stands for Confederate States of America. The backside states "God is our vindicator." The cemetery is also the final resting place of a number of unknown dead both Union and Confederate.
Standing there at the Mound I looked up. These tall pines stood towering over the Mound reaching toward the heavens marking the final resting place for all buried below their branches.
