Walking Around Historic Savannah, Colonial Park Cemetery

Finally, the last post about Historic Savannah....  The Colonial Park Cemetery borders West Oglethorpe Avenue.  This small cemetery was opened in 1750 and many of Savannah's earliest citizens are buried here.  This cemetery is one of the stops on Savannah Ghost Tours.

The Daughters of the American Revolution

had an archway erected

for the cemetery.

James M. Butler
died in 1837.

Some of the tombs look 

like little houses.

Sumner Mooney
died in 1825.

Many graves lie 

beneath raised slabs.

Joseph Vallence Bevan,
the first official historian
of Georgia

The graves of 

General Lachlan McIntosh,

Continental Officer

 & Colonel James.S. McIntosh, 

hero of the War of 1812.

Eric standing

beneath a Live Oak.  

This is a beautiful cemetery

& park.

Colonial Park Cemetery was closed for burials in 1853 and became a city park in 1896.