- Colonial Park State Historical
Marker
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Located in Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah
32.07565, -81.0903
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- COLONIAL PARK
This cemetery, the second in colonial
Savannah, was the burying ground for the city from about 1750
until it was closed against burials in 1853.
Among the distinguished dead who
rest here are Archibald Bulloch, first President of Georgia;
James Habersham, acting royal Governor of the Province, 1771-'73;
Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General under three Presidents;
Lachlan McIntosh, Major General, Continental Army; Samuel Elbert,
Revolutionary soldier and Governor of Georgia; Capt. Denis L.
Cottineau de Kerloguen who aided John Paul Jones in the engagement
between the "Bon Homme Richard" and the "Serapis";
Hugh McCall, early historian of Georgia; Edward Green Malbone,
the noted miniaturist, and Colonel John S. McIntosh, a hero of
the War with Mexico.
The remains of Major General Nathanael
Greene who died in 1786 reposed in the Graham vault until they
were reinterred in 1901 in John Square.
The cemetery became a city park
in 1896.
- 025-20 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1954
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