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Rose Hill Cemetery (Macon, Georgia)

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Architect
  
Rose,Simri

Area
  
20 ha

Phone
  
+1 478-751-9119

NRHP Reference #
  
73000611

Year built
  
1840

Added to NRHP
  
9 October 1973

Rose Hill Cemetery (Macon, Georgia)

Location
  
Riverside Dr., Macon, Georgia

Address
  
1071 Riverside Dr, Macon, GA 31201, USA

Burials
  
Duane Allman, Neel Reid, Nathaniel Edwin Harris

Similar
  
Cannonball House, The Allman Brothers Band Mu, Johnston‑Felton‑Hay House, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Tubman Museum

Rose Hill Cemetery is in Macon, Georgia, U.S. The cemetery opened in 1840. The cemetery is part of a self-guided walking tour of Macon and is the site of the bi-annual Rose Hill Ramble sponsored by the Middle Georgia Historical Society. It was designed by Simri Rose for the express purpose of being a place to visit and as a gathering place for the people of Macon and for visitors to the city. Rose was instrumental in the planning of The City of Macon and planned Rose Hill Cemetery, in return for being able to choose his own burial plot. The cemetery was a hangout and artistic inspiration for the Allman Brothers Band during their early years. The Allman Brothers' slide guitarist Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley are interred here, side by side.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Notable interments

  • Duane Allman
  • Clifford Anderson
  • Augustus Octavius Bacon
  • Charles Lafayette Bartlett
  • James Henderson Blount
  • Peter Bracken, engineer of the Texas locomotive
  • Alfred Holt Colquitt
  • Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • Samuel Francis Gove
  • Nathaniel Edwin Harris
  • James Jackson - United States Representative from Georgia, a judge advocate in the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
  • Henry Graybill Lamar
  • John Basil Lamar
  • Buck Melton - former Mayor of Macon, Georgia (1975-1979)
  • Eugenius Aristides Nisbet
  • Elizabeth Reed Napier
  • Berry Oakley
  • J. Neel Reid
  • George Washington Bonaparte Towns
  • Blanton Winship - Major general of the United States Army, Judge Advocate General (1931-1933)
  • References

    Rose Hill Cemetery (Macon, Georgia) Wikipedia