SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn.-Even though city administrators have moved in recent months to clean up the town’s oldest cemetery, some residents say the work already has gone far enough.
Mayor Mike Killian said the town has spent more than $6,000 trying to clean up the isolated site, known as City Cemetery.
“We want to get some access to the cemetery,” he said. “People e-mail us and write letters about not being able to get up there.”
The cemetery, on the south side of South Pittsburg Mountain, dates back as early as 1840. With an estimated 1,600 graves, it includes the burial places of some of the town’s first settlers.
City officials said they are looking into the possibility of completing the old road that runs through the cemetery so it would encircle the area and provide better access.