ROAD TRIP USA Georgia’s Ghost Hunting in Savannah: Exploring the Most Haunted City in America
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Visiting colonial Park cemetery and Bonavanture cemetery, this was very special visiting those haunted places
"UNBELIEVABLE! Ghost Hunting in Savannah: Exploring the Most Haunted City in America "Colonial Park Cemetery
Established 1750; 274 years ago
(closed to burials in 1853; 171 years ago)
Location
200 Abercorn Street
Savannah, Georgia
Country United States
Coordinates 32.07522°N 81.090155°W
Type Public municipal
Owned by City of Savannah
Size 6 acres (2.4 ha)
No. of graves est. 9,000
Find a Grave Colonial Park Cemetery
Colonial Park Cemetery (locally and informally known as Colonial Cemetery) is a historic cemetery located in downtown Savannah, Georgia. It became a city park in 1896,[1] 43 years after burials in the cemetery ceased.[2]
The cemetery was established in 1750, when Savannah was the capital of the British Province of Georgia, last of the Thirteen Colonies. By 1789 it had expanded three times to reach its current six acres bounded by East Oglethorpe Avenue (to the north), Habersham Street (east), East Perry Lane (south) and Abercorn Street (west). Savannah's primary public cemetery throughout its 103 active years, its previous names have included the Old Cemetery, Old Brick Graveyard, South Broad Street Cemetery, and Christ Church Cemetery.
History
Originally built as the burial ground for the Christ Church Parish, in 1789 it became a cemetery for Savannahians of all denominations.[1] The cemetery was closed to burials in 1853, some eight years before the start of the American Civil War, so no Confederate soldiers are interred there. After Union troops occupied Savannah on December 24, 1864, the graveyard became a temporary home to "several hundred" Union soldiers.[3] Soldiers allegedly damaged or defaced some of the stone markers (including altering some dates and ages) and sheltered inside vaults.[3]
Notable burials
John Berrien (1759-1815), major in the American Revolution (father of John M. Berrien, senator and attorney general)
Archibald Bulloch (1730-1777), governor of Georgia's Provincial Congress
Samuel Elbert (1740-1788), Revolutionary soldier and a governor of the state of Georgia
Button Gwinnett (1735-1777), a signer of the Declaration of Independence
James Habersham (1712-1775), acting royal governor of the Province of Georgia (father of John, Joseph and James Habersham Jr.)
John Habersham (1754-1799), member of the Continental Congress (son of James Habersham, brother of Joseph and James Habersham Jr.)
Joseph Habersham (1751-1815), Postmaster General of the United States under three presidents (son of James Habersham, brother of John and James Habersham Jr.)
The grave of Lachlan McIntosh
Edward Malbone (1777-1807), painter
Lachlan McIntosh (1725-1806), major general in the Continental Army
William Scarbrough, (1776-1838), sea captain
More than 700 victims of Savannah's 1820 yellow fever epidemic are also buried here.
The remains of major general Nathanael Greene (1742-1786) reposed in the cemetery's Graham vault between 1786 and 1901, at which point they were reinterred in Johnson Square, along with the remains of his eldest son, George. His remains had shared the vault with those of John Maitland, his arch-rival in the Revolutionary War. Maitland's remains were returned to his native Scotland in 1981.
Le cimetière de Bonaventure est un cimetière public situé sur un promontoire de la rivière Wilmington, à l'est de Savannah, en Géorgie. Le cimetière est devenu célèbre après son apparition dans le roman de 1994, Minuit dans le jardin du bien et du mal de John Berendt, et dans le film, réalisé par Clint Eastwood, basé sur le livre1. C'est le plus grand des cimetières municipaux de la ville, s'étendant sur près de 160 acres (0,6 km2).
L'entrée du cimetière est située au 330 Bonaventure Road. Juste à l'intérieur des portes se trouve la « tombe de Gaston », grande et ornée.
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