Colonial Park Cemetery

Colonial Park Cemetery
Inside the cemetery, looking west to its boundary with Abercorn Street
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Established1750 (274 years ago) (1750)
(closed to burials in 1853 (171 years ago) (1853))
Location
200 Abercorn Street
Savannah, Georgia
CountryUnited States
Coordinates32°04′31″N 81°05′25″W / 32.07522°N 81.090155°W / 32.07522; -81.090155
TypePublic municipal
Owned byCity of Savannah
Size6 acres (2.4 ha)
No. of gravesest. 9,000
Find a GraveColonial Park Cemetery

Colonial Park Cemetery (locally and informally known as Colonial Cemetery; historically known as the Old Cemetery[1]) is a cemetery located in downtown Savannah, Georgia. It became a city park in 1896,[2] 43 years after burials in the cemetery ceased.[3]

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.