This was the second cemetery in Savannah and the oldest remaining today as many of the other cemeteries have been built over. Internments ran from 1750 to 1853. There were thousands of burials but only a few hundred headstones remaining due to time, the cemetery being built over and even vandalism during the Civil War.
If there was ever such a thing as a “home cemetery” like a “home state,” Colonial Park would be mine. It is my favorite and most easily accessible. After my first book, I had a goal to photograph and identify each headstone in the cemetery so that I could research the person buried there; I have also started looking into the names of the numerous unmarked graves in the cemetery. Because of this, this will easily be my most full page of cemetery stories.
