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Oak Hill Cemetery, Cartersville, Georgia Parkhill Cemetery , Columbus Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Cemetery – large memorial cemetery with hundreds of unmarked confederate graves from the Civil War
Georgia National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the city of Canton, in Cherokee County, Georgia.Managed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 774.9 acres (313.6 ha), and has been undergoing development with the intention of servicing the interment needs of United States military veterans and their families for the next fifty years.
Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Cemetery is a memorial cemetery located in the city of Jonesboro, Georgia, United States. It was named in honor of General Patrick Cleburne. This cemetery was a burial site for Confederate soldiers who died in the Battle of Jonesboro in 1864. This cemetery is open daily until dusk.
One half mile to the west, at the intersection of Monument and McPherson Avenues, is a memorial erected by the U.S. Army for Major General John B. McPherson on the spot at which he was killed by Confederate forces on the same day (July 22, 1864, during the Battle of Atlanta). [4] Westview Cemetery Memorial.
The Old City Cemetery, also known as Linwood Cemetery, is a 28.7-acre (11.6 ha) [1] cemetery on what is now Linwood Boulevard, in Columbus, Georgia. It dates from 1828, when the town of Columbus was founded, or before. It appears in surveyor Edward Lloyd Thomas's original plan for the city. The cemetery consists mostly of rectangular family ...
Westview Cemetery, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest civilian cemetery in the Southeastern United States, comprising more than 582 acres (2.36 km 2), 50 percent of which is undeveloped. The cemetery includes the graves of more than 125,000 people and was added to the Georgia Register of Historic Places in 2019 and the National ...
Over 6,900 Confederate soldiers are buried in the cemetery, many of whom had died during the Atlanta campaign of the American Civil War. [1] The monument's obelisk was commissioned by the Atlanta Ladies' Memorial Association (ALMA), who later commissioned another Confederate monument in the cemetery, the Lion of the Confederacy sculpture. [1]
Oakland is an excellent example of a Victorian-style cemetery, and reflects the "garden cemetery" movement started and exemplified by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts. The original 6 acres (24,000 m 2 ) of Oakland remains one of the oldest historical plots of land in Atlanta, most of the rest of the city having been burned in 1864.