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Colonial Park Cemetery served as Savannah’s cemetery for more than a century and contains over nine thousand graves. Established in 1750, by 1789 it had been expanded three times to reach its current size.
Colonial Park Cemetery (locally and informally known as Colonial Cemetery) is a historic cemetery located in downtown Savannah, Georgia. It became a city park in 1896, 43 years after burials in the cemetery ceased.
Savannah. Colonial Park Cemetery. Added: 1 Jan 2000. Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 33357. According to the historical society, any plot number starting with XXXX or X-X-X-X indicates that the person was buried at Colonial Park but the grave site...
Colonial Park is the oldest and most conveniently accessible of Savannah’s principal historic cemeteries and amongst the oldest surviving features of the city’s landscape, used for burials from the 1750s to 1853. Today, the six-acre graveyard is a public park, and a popular stop on the tourist trail. See also: – Savannah’s Historic District.
The Colonial Park Cemetery, one of Savannah’s most beautiful restorations, is the final resting place for many of Savannah's earliest citizens. Established about 1750, it was the original burial ground for the Christ Church Parish.
Colonial Park Cemetery is home to hundreds of weathered tombstones which provide a tangible connection to colonial times. Located on Oglethorpe Avenue, burials began here in the 1700s -- making it Savannah’s oldest remaining cemetery.
A beautiful cemetery filled with magnolia trees and fascinating markers and tombs, this burial ground for Colonists (1750-1853) is believed to be the site of the grave of Button Gwinnett, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Search for famous Georgians as you stroll through.
Sep 10, 2014 · Oldest intact municipal cemetery in Savannah. Primarily Public cemetery from 1750-1853. DAR Patriots' Arch erected in 1913 (completed in 1914) by the Daughters of the American Revolution to memorialize the Revolutionary War Veterans buried in Colonial Park Cemetery.
Colonial Park Cemetery, located in Savannah's Historic District, is the oldest intact municipal cemetery in the city. Established in 1750, the cemetery has more than 9,000 graves and is the...
At the northern end of Colonial Park Cemetery is a mass graves that holds almost 700 bodies of people who died during the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1820. The exact number of people buried in this mass grave is rumored to be 666 people, much to the delight of ghost tour companies.
