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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]
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]
Bonaventure Cemetery: Bonaventure Cemetery. February 2, 2001 : Bonaventure Rd., 1 mi. N of US 80 Savannah: 6: Bordley Cottage-Beach View House ... Price, Anderson ...
Greenwich Cemetery is a rural cemetery located on a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River, east of Savannah, Georgia. [2] It stands on the site of the former Greenwich Plantation and became an addition to Bonaventure Cemetery (itself on the former grounds of Bonaventure Plantation) in 1933, [3] and it is the newest of the city's four municipal cemeteries.
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.
Bench at grave of Conrad Aiken in Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. The Aikens lived primarily at their farmhouse in West Brewster and wintered in Savannah in a home adjacent to his early childhood house. [13] Aiken died on 17 August 1973, aged 84, and was buried in Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, on the banks of the ...
This page categorizes burials at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. Pages in category "Burials at Bonaventure Cemetery" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Established in 1992, Bonaventure Historical Society came about when a retired school teacher and some friends took action to preserve and share the histories of the cemetery’s best-known figures ...