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  2. Bonaventure Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Bonaventure Cemetery is a rural cemetery located on a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River, southeast of downtown Savannah, Georgia. [1] The cemetery's prominence grew when it was featured in the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, and in the subsequent movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, based on the book. [3]

  3. Colonial Park Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    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. It became a city park in 1896, [2] 43 years after burials in the cemetery ceased, [3] and is open to visitors.

  4. Laurel Grove Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Laurel Grove Cemetery is a cemetery located in midtown Savannah, Georgia. It includes the original cemetery for whites (now known as Laurel Grove North) and a companion burial ground (called Laurel Grove South) that was reserved for slaves and free people of color. The original cemetery has countless graves of many of Savannah's Confederate ...

  5. 50 Famous Celebrity Gravesites Around the World - AOL

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    Bonaventure Cemetery. Savannah, Georgia This beautiful cemetery became world famous thanks to its role in John Berendt's bestselling true-crime novel "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ...

  6. List of cemeteries in Georgia (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Basket Creek Cemetery Lott Cemetery. Andersonville National Historic Site; Basket Creek Cemetery; Behavior Cemetery; Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, made famous by the Bird Girl sculpture featured on the cover of the book, and in the movie of, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

  7. The Gaston Tomb - Wikipedia

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    The Gaston Tomb (also known as the Stranger's Tomb) is a tomb in Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. It was built in memory of William Gaston, a prominent merchant in Savannah who died in 1837. The tomb was built seven years later, initially in Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery. It was moved to Bonaventure in 1873. [1] [2]

  8. Bonaventure Plantation - Wikipedia

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    Bonaventure Plantation was a plantation founded in colonial Savannah, Province of Georgia, on land now occupied by Greenwich and Bonaventure cemeteries. The site was 600 acres (2.4 km 2), including a plantation house and private cemetery, located on the Wilmington River, about 3.5 miles (6 kilometres) east of the Savannah colony.

  9. The Graham Vault - Wikipedia

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    The Graham Vault, Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. After returning to his native Newport, Rhode Island, after the Revolutionary War, Greene moved to Savannah in 1785 after being awarded ownership of Graham's Mulberry Grove Plantation. Greene fell ill on June 12, 1786, and he died at Mulberry Grove seven days later, at the age of 43.