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Colonial Park Cemetery

Cemetery

Savannah's oldest surviving burial ground, established in 1750, contains graves of numerous Revolutionary War-era figures and includes a mass burial area associated with deaths during the 1779 siege. Button Gwinnett, Georgia's signer of the Declaration of Independence, is buried here. The cemetery was used as a Union Army camp during the Civil War, and some markers were disturbed during that period.

Visiting Today

Address

200 E Oglethorpe Ave, Savannah, GA 31401

Connected Events

Dec 1778
Fall of Savannah — British Capture

Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Campbell, Major General Robert Howe, Quamino Dolly

Sep 1779
French Fleet Arrives Off Savannah

Vice-Admiral Comte d'Estaing, Major General Benjamin Lincoln, General Augustine Prevost

Oct 1779
Franco-American Assault on Spring Hill Redoubt

Brigadier General Count Casimir Pulaski, Vice-Admiral Comte d'Estaing, Major General Benjamin Lincoln, Sergeant William Jasper

Oct 1779
Death of Count Casimir Pulaski

Brigadier General Count Casimir Pulaski

Oct 1779
Lincoln Withdraws — Siege Abandoned

Vice-Admiral Comte d'Estaing, Major General Benjamin Lincoln