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 is approximately 6 acres in size and is located in the heart of Savannah’s Historic District.

Colonial Park Cemetery (locally and informally known as Colonial Cemetery; historically known as the Old Cemetery [1]) is an 18th- and early 19th-century burial ground located in downtown Savannah, Georgia.

The oldest intact municipal cemetery in Savannah, this historic cemetery serves as a popular site for residents and visitors alike. Historic markers stand beside a number of graves, describing important people and events contributing to Georgia’s history.

Colonial Park Cemetery. This is the “downtown” cemetery, so it’s the easiest one to get to if you’re staying in the Historic District. It’s within easy walking distance from most downtown hotels.

Narrow your results to famous, Non-Cemetery Burials, memorials with or without grave photos and more. 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. Hours and tour availability may vary.

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.

2020年1月10日 · Walking the pathways of Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery there are hints to be found of the "cemetery" that came before the "park." Begun as a modest parish burial ground outside of town, the South Broad Street Cemetery was retired a century later, beloved and reviled; 5.8 acres of history and legacy buried like a time…

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.