Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, United States

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Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, is a historic 19th-century burial ground known for its Victorian-era funerary art and as the resting place of notable figures including Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery
historic cemetery
tourist attraction
adjacentTo Interstate 16 (Savannah terminus vicinity)
burialPlaceOf 19th-century Savannah civic leaders
Confederate soldiers
Juliette Gordon Low
members of prominent Savannah families
prominent Savannah politicians
coordinateLocation approx. 32.06°N 81.11°W
country United States
hasArchitecturalStyle Classical Revival funerary monuments
Gothic Revival funerary monuments
Victorian funerary art
hasCulturalContext Southern United States funerary traditions
Victorian mourning customs
hasHeritageStatus historic landscape cemetery
hasNumberOfBurials tens of thousands
hasPart African American burial section (Laurel Grove South)
Confederate soldiers section
Laurel Grove North Cemetery
Laurel Grove South Cemetery
hasTourismType cemetery tourism
heritage tourism
hasVegetation Spanish moss
live oaks
heritageDesignation National Register of Historic Places listing
Savannah Historic District contributing property
inception 1850s
locatedIn Savannah, Georgia
linked to: Savannah
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Chatham County, Georgia NERFINISHED
locatedInNeighborhood Victorian District, Savannah
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
notableFor Victorian-era funerary art
elaborate family plots
historic ironwork and stone carving
separate burial grounds for white and African American residents
openingDate 1852
operator City of Savannah Department of Cemeteries
ownedBy City of Savannah
partOf Savannah’s 19th-century expansion era
replaces Colonial Park Cemetery
terrainFeature curving drives and paths
wooded grounds
usedFor genealogical research
historic tours
public burials

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Juliette Gordon Low burialPlace Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, United States
Lafayette McLaws burialPlace Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
linked to: Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, United States
Martin L. Smith burialPlace Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
linked to: Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, United States
James Lord Pierpont burialPlace Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, United States
Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon burialPlace Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, United States
Francis S. Bartow burialPlace Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
linked to: Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, United States