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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
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 ...
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.
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]
Greenwood has a large Jewish section and is also the burial place of local Chinese and Greek citizens. Greenwood cemetery was desegregated in 1987, when CR Jones, Atlanta's first black council member, was buried there. [1] The cemetery contains one British Commonwealth war grave, of a Second World War airman of the Royal Canadian Air Force. [2]
Thomas Petters Carnes (1762–1822), United States Representative for Georgia and state court judge. George Pierce Doles (1830–1864), Georgia businessman and Confederate general during the American Civil War. Tomlinson Fort (1787–1859), United States Representative for Georgia; Tomlinson Fort (1839–1910), mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee
South-View Cemetery is a historic African-American-founded cemetery located approximately 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Georgia. An active operational cemetery on over 100 acres of land, it is the oldest African-American cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia and the oldest African-American “non eleemosynary” corporation in the country. [ 3 ]
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.