A Revolution Remembered in Stone: Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah, GA

Colonial Park Cemetery is Savannah’s oldest intact municipal burial ground. Established in the mid-1700s (burials began about 1750), it served as the city’s primary cemetery until it was closed to interments in 1853. The roughly six-acre, park-like site contains thousands of burials (estimates commonly put the number at ~9,000–10,000), many 18th- and early-19th-century gravestones and family plots, a large mass grave of yellow-fever victims, and memorial markers installed later by civic groups. The city transformed the site into a public park in the late 19th century and it remains open to visitors today.