Savannah's Cemeteries
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The City of Savannah owns and operates five municipal cemeteries: Bonaventure; Greenwich; Laurel Grove South; and Colonial Park. The Colonial Park Cemetery is inactive but there are more than 500 burials annually in the other four cemeteries.
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Colonial Park Cemetery was not the first Colonial cemetery. From 1733 to 1750, colonists were buried in a cemetery on Percival Square (now Wright Square) on a site since developed with a high-rise building. Todays Colonial Park did not open until 1750 and remained open until 1850.
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 The first soybeans grown anywhere in America were grown on the Greenwich Plantation (now Greenwich Cemetery). Samuel Bowen smuggled the seed out of China where he had been imprisoned for nearly four years and planted the first crop in 1766. Soybeans did not make it to the Midwest until 1851.
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The public holding vault in Laurel Grove Cemetery was constructed in 1852 for the sum of $300. The vault was a temporary holding place for deceased persons prior to interment. It has not been used for that purpose in more than 30 years.
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 Cremated remains can be interred in a columbarium--a mausoleum-like structure specifically for ashes in urns. The City of Savannah has an attractive columbarium on the scenic Wilmington River Bluff in Greenwich Cemetery.
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The cemetery known as Bonaventure was previously a private cemetery owned and operated by the Evergreen Cemetery Company. Located on the site of the historical Bonaventure Plantation, the cemetery was not named Bonaventure until purchased by the City of Savannah in 1907.
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 The Bird Girl has not been at Bonaventure Cemetery since 1995. The statue photographed by Jack Leigh in 1993 and featured on the cover of John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" was sculpted by Sylvia Shaw Judson in 1938. It has been on display in the Telfair Museum since 1997.
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Interment rights can still be purchased in Greenwich Cemetery. This scenic cemetery on a historically significant site owned and operated by the City of Savannah offers many affordable interment alternatives.
For more information call the
City's Cemetery Department at
651-6843. |
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