Colonial Park

Colonial Park served as Savannah’s second colonial cemetery and was the city’s burying ground from about 1750 until burials were ended in 1853. Among those buried there are Archibald Bulloch, first President of Georgia; James Habersham, acting royal Governor of the Province from 1771 to 1773; Joseph Habersham, Postmaster General under three Presidents; Lachlan McIntosh, a Major General in the Continental Army; Samuel Elbert, a 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, an early historian of Georgia; Edward Green Malbone, a 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, rested in the Graham vault until they were reinterred in 1901 in Johnson Square. The cemetery became a city park in 1896.

Savannah, Georgia · United States