Historic Decatur Cemetery

The oldest known publicly owned burial ground in metro Atlanta, the Decatur Cemetery is believed to predate the city’s 1823 incorporation. The first written record is an 1832 act of legislature providing “Commissioners for the Decatur Burial Ground.”

Expanded many times, ...

Entrance to Cemetery of the Columbia Hebrew Benevolent Society

The society has been in continuous existence since its organization in 1822. It was chartered 1834. Its charities are administered to the needs of the community without regard to creed or race.

Marker is on Gadsden Street, on the right when ...

Bergholz Cemetery Veteran's Memorial

In Memory of All Veterans Who Have Served Their Country

Marker is on Local Highway 276 0.3 miles north of County Highway 49, on the left when traveling north.

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Sparta Cemetery

Set apart by Col. Philipse.

Graves of Rev. soldiers.

Cannon fire hit tombstone.

First site of Pres. Church

moved to Sing Sing 1800

Marker is on Albany Post Road (U.S. 9) north of Revolutionary Road, on the right when traveling ...

Daniel Pratt Cemetery / George Cooke

(Front):

Daniel Pratt CemeteryFinal resting place of early Alabama industrialist Daniel Pratt, 1799-1873, and wife Esther Ticknor Pratt, 1803-1875. He was from New Hampshire and she, Connecticut. Married 1827 at Fortville, Jones County, Georgia.

The former carpenter’s apprentice practiced his craft in ...

Garrison Cemetery

Here are buried several

hundred officers and men of

the American Army, chiefly

New York, New Jersey and

Pennsylvania Militia 1775-77.

Marker is on Sandy Redoubt, on the right when traveling south.

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Live Oak Cemetery

East portion reserved for graveyard, 1829; west part purchased City of Selma, 1877.

Here are buried:

William Rufus King, 1786-1853, Vice President of U.S. 1853.

John Tyler Morgan, 1824-1907, U.S. Senator, Brig. Gen. C.S.A.

Edmund Winston Pettus, 1821-1907, U.S. Senator, Brig. Gen. C.S.A.

Nathaniel H. ...

St. Colman Church and Cemetery

Irish railroad workers founded the Catholic community in Washington Court House in the 1850s, with the first Mass being held in a local shanty in 1852. In 1871, Father John B. O'Donoghue purchased three and 5/8 acres of land adjoining ...

Old Washington Cemetery

Washington Court House was founded in 1810 by American Revolutionary War veterans from the state of Virginia. They also established Washington Cemetery in 1810 and located it in what was originally the southern part of the town. With the coming ...

Bloomingburg Cemetery

The Bloomingburg Presbyterian Church and cemetery was established in the northwest corner of the current cemetery grounds on March 7, 1818. Several years later it became a center for anti-slavery activity. The Reverend William Dickey, who presided over the church, ...