The God's Acre Tour: Colonial Park Cemetery

1 hour

The God's Acre Tour: Colonial Park Cemetery

Shannon Scott's Original 1990s Tour That Started Everything!

Duration

2 hours

NEW EVENING TOURS 6PM to 8PM

Savannah's Oldest Extant Cemetery (1750 - 1853)

"Hedged in by city streets and tradition blest lies a sleeping township..."

Sitting in the heart of the town grid of 24 city squares there's an unofficial 25th called Colonial Park Cemetery. It serves as the biggest story graveyard in the whole Historic District! The grounds defy time as the oldest patch of public land one can visit in Savannah and where you'll see and touch materials far older than the Victorian city that now surrounds! During Savannah's primitive hours, this is where every town meeting, picnic, wedding, duel, and public execution was conducted! Eventually, it would be the final resting place of Gen Nathanael Greene, 2 signers of The Declaration of Independence, duellists, merchants, priests, paupers, soldiers, and just about every character that gave blood, sweat, and tears to the early colony and later nation. Less we forget the mass graves of Yellow Fever victims resulting in the closure of the place down in 1853.

Discussions will include the adjoining "Negro Burial Ground," Poet Conrad Aiken's Birthplace, The Old City Jail, dueling grounds, The Hanging Tree & the fascinating ritual use of the cemetery by area Root Doctors.

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