Gadsden in Etowah County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)

Whites Chapel Cemetery

Etowah County

— Established 1879 —

Whites Chapel Cemetery Marker image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Jimmy Emerson, May 27, 2026

1. Whites Chapel Cemetery Marker

Inscription.
This cemetery is listed in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register by the Alabama Historical Commission. Whites Chapel Cemetery Association is honored to have Veterans of the Civil War. WWI, WWII, Korean War, and others who served our country buried among all our loved ones. Listed in the Alabama Historic Cemetery Register, March 18, 2015

Erected 2016 by Whites Chapel Cemetery Association and Alabama Historical Commission.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, Korean • War, World I • War, World II. A significant historical year for this entry is 1879.

Location. 34° 3.552′ N, 85° 55.422′ W. Memorial is in Gadsden, Alabama, in Etowah County. It is on Whites Chapel Road north of High School Road, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 776 Whites Chapel Rd, Gadsden AL 35901, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in North Alabama.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Southern Appalachia.

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Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the original Cherokee Nation,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Turkey Town Monument (approx. 0.6 miles away); Lynching in America / The Lynching of Bunk Richardson (approx. 5.4 miles away); John H. Wisdom (approx. 5½ miles away); Emma Sansom Monument (approx. 5½ miles away); Gadsden, Alabama (approx. 5½ miles away); Paul Harvey Loyalty Day (approx. 5½ miles away); Gadsden Times-News Building (approx. 5.6 miles away); The North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church (approx. 5.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Gadsden.

Photographed by Jimmy Emerson, May 27, 2026

2. Whites Chapel Cemetery & Marker

The church is vacant.

Credits. This page was last revised on June 10, 2026. It was originally submitted on June 4, 2026, by Jimmy Emerson of Dalton, Georgia. This page has been viewed 12 times since then. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on June 4, 2026, by Jimmy Emerson of Dalton, Georgia. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.