Historic cemetery located in downtown Savannah that became a city park in 1896, 43 years after burials in the cemetery ceased
General Information
8an to 5pm daily
How to Get There
Overview
Colonial Park Cemetery is a six-acre historic burial ground in downtown Savannah, at Abercorn Street and East Oglethorpe Avenue. Established in 1750 when Savannah was capital of the British Province of Georgia, it served as the city's primary public cemetery until burials ended in 1853, so no Confederate soldiers are interred here. It became a city park in 1896 and is now a quiet place to wander among weathered 18th- and 19th-century grave markers.
Notable Burials
- Button Gwinnett (1735-1777), signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Lachlan McIntosh (1725-1806), Continental Army major general
- Archibald Bulloch and Samuel Elbert, early Georgia governors
- Joseph Habersham (1751-1815), U.S. Postmaster General under three presidents, and other members of the prominent Habersham family
- Edward Malbone (1777-1807), painter
- More than 700 victims of Savannah's 1820 yellow fever epidemic
Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene rested in the Graham vault from 1786 until 1901, when his remains were moved to Johnson Square.
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