South — Cemetery filing

Cemeteries with a file in Georgia

Georgia files 6 burial grounds said to keep their dead — monuments and dates on one side of the record, figures among the markers on the other. Some of these grounds are meticulously documented; others survive mostly in the reports about them. Both kinds are filed the same way here: what is known, and what is said.

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Oakland Cemetery

Atlanta, Georgia

The 1850 garden cemetery where Atlanta is buried.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Memory Hill Cemetery

Milledgeville, Georgia

Historic cemetery with folklore about performer Dixie Haygood.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Bonaventure Cemetery

Savannah, Georgia

Midnight in the Garden cemetery of Gracie Watson and river ghosts.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Oconee Hill Cemetery

Athens, Georgia

Cemetery associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Mount Hope Cemetery

Dahlonega, Georgia

Local landmark with published ghost folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Colonial Park Cemetery

Savannah, Georgia

1750 burying ground where Union soldiers altered the headstones.

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