From the intersection of Main St. & 1st St. in Union City, travel east on Main St. for 0.6 mi., turning south (right) onto Adams St. going 0.3 mi. to the old main entrance to the cemetery. This large old cemetery is about 0.2 mi. long & contains many early residents of the city.

The earliest remaining marked burial within City View Cemetery dates back to the late 1850s. City View became the first city cemetery for the newly established town of Union City, Tennessee. Prior to that, burials in the area were at church cemeteries, family graveyards, or out behind the family homestead. Several burials occurred at City View Cemetery throughout the late 1860s and early 1870s. In 1873, a cholera epidemic struck the town of Union City. The town had just reached a population of 1,000, though approximately 500 people fled the city under the circumstances. Of the 500 people that remained, about 200 of those would contract the disease, and about 100 of those would succumb to it. The graves of these victims were hastily dug, with no sense of alignment or rows. If the 1878 Yellow Fever outbreak that raged in areas surrounding Union City such as Memphis, Tennessee, and Hickman, Kentucky, affected the area, the graves of these victims were most certainly dug in a similar fashion. Despite this, burials continued at City View and the cemetery continued expanding eastward. The late 1800s saw the formation of nearby East View Cemetery which helped to alleviate the overcrowding of City View Cemetery. A Union City Cemetery Association was then formed in the early 1900s which brought many improvements to both City View and East View Cemeteries. An article in The Commercial Courier on November 18th, 1921, gives a brief history of City View Cemetery. The article describes the conditions and setup of the older section of the cemetery as a "total waste". Several improvements, including the erection of a new entrance gate, were completed on the cemetery in 1921. In the late 1920s and 1930s, City View became nearly full, with no room to expand. Hence, burials in City View Cemetery became a rare occasion, with most people choosing to bury their loved ones in East View Cemetery. A photograph of City View Cemetery in the early 1900s from the Tennessee Library and Archives' photograph collection shows several plots being surrounded by iron fences. Today, not a single iron fence remains within the cemetery. Sadly, the removal of the iron fences is far from the worst that has happened to City View Cemetery. Ever since the 1950s and 60s, the cemetery has been vandalized on several occasions. Tombstones have been knocked over, broken, and destroyed. As a picture on this page depicts, several of those tombstones were scattered around a tree in the center of the cemetery. The cemetery was used, and still is, by several children who use it as a route to school and back. Many people who live near the cemetery lack the proper respect for the place. People use the grass drive through the cemetery as a cut-through road from Howard Street to Taylor Street. A basketball goal has been placed at the end of Adams Road (formerly known as Cemetery Road until 1923) which is supposed to serve as an entrance to the cemetery. Only two burials have occurred in City View Cemetery since 2000, both of which were only buried there to be by family members who passed long ago. However, thanks to the efforts of a few people, improvements are coming to the cemetery. Many tombstones have been fixed and reset. In March 2020, the city of Union City was notified of the neglected cemetery and an article was placed in The Daily Messenger. Improvements of the cemetery are expected to take place soon.