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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 grave has been called "one of the most visited sites in Bonaventure Cemetery". [5] Tours visit her grave to mark her birthday each year. Her parents are buried elsewhere, having moved back to their native northeastern United States a few years later: her father in Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro, Vermont, and her mother in Albany Rural ...
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]
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 ...
1. Gen. George Custer. West Point, New York The Civil War general most famous for his "last stand" at the Battle of Little Big Horn can be found in the West Point Cemetery alongside many other ...
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.
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 ...
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