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Laurel Grove Cemetery

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Established
  
1853

Owned by
  
City of Savannah

Founded
  
1853

Type
  
Public municipal

Find a Grave
  
Laurel Grove Cemetery

Phone
  
+1 912-651-6772

Location
  
Savannah, Georgia, United States

Address
  
2101 Kollock St, Savannah, GA 31415, USA

Burials
  
Francis S. Bartow, Lafayette McLaws, Andrew Bryan

Similar
  
Bonaventure Cemetery, First African Baptist C, First Bryan Baptist Church, Fort James Jackson, W B Hodgson Hall

Laurel grove cemetery savannah georgia


Laurel Grove Cemetery is a cemetery located in midtown Savannah, Georgia. It includes the original cemetery for whites (now known as Laurel Grove North) and a companion burial ground (called Laurel Grove South) that was reserved for slaves and free people of color. The original cemetery has countless graves of many of Savannah's Confederate veterans of the American Civil War. Laurel Grove South holds the graves of thousands of slaves and free blacks from coastal Georgia. The cemetery was dedicated in 1852. The lawyer and poet Henry Rootes Jackson delivered the dedication address.

Contents

With lush plantings and beautifully carved stones, both sections of Laurel Grove Cemetery resemble more famous Victorian-era graveyards such as Green-Wood in New York City and Père Lachaise in Paris.

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History

Although planned as early as 1818, Laurel Grove first opened for burials in 1853. Administrators of Laurel Grove have recently begun an ambitious plan to computerize the cemetery's burial records.

References

Laurel Grove Cemetery Wikipedia