Bonaventure Don

Bonaventure Don Stroll with me through the real garden of good and evil; beautiful Bonaventure Cemetery. All fact. N For me, and mine, Bonaventure is a family tradition.

My name is Don Teuton, and my tour of historic Bonaventure Cemetery is ranked by TripAdvisor as the number one tour in Savannah. My parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents are buried in these hallowed grounds and I will be as well. I’m on the Board of Directors of the Bonaventure Historical Society and an active volunteer for the same. If you’re looking for ghost stories or secret societies

or other fanciful things, this is not the tour for you. There are other Bonaventure Cemetery tours you can take if you want fiction. I believe that what actually occurred on these grounds, and in this city, is fascinating enough without the need to make things up. My tour is the only historically accurate walking tour of Bonaventure cemetery. I know Bonaventure Cemetery inside and out and I do love to show it off. Y’all come see me. We’ll have fun, I promise.

Due to the recent blizzard, Bonaventure Cemetery is closed until Monday or later. Photo: John Brannen
01/25/2025

Due to the recent blizzard, Bonaventure Cemetery is closed until Monday or later.

Photo: John Brannen

Bonaventure’s three thousand camellias are starting to bloom. This one is appropriately called Pink Perfection.
01/03/2025

Bonaventure’s three thousand camellias are starting to bloom. This one is appropriately called Pink Perfection.

Folks, hurricane cleanup in Bonaventure is taking longer than expected. The most recent news is that the cemetery will b...
10/04/2024

Folks, hurricane cleanup in Bonaventure is taking longer than expected. The most recent news is that the cemetery will be closed until next Friday at the earliest. No historically important monuments were damaged, but many trees are leaning into other trees, and the city can't let the public enter until that has been cleaned up.

This photo is from Hurricane Mathew, for effect.

Here's a decent article about Midnight that would have been even better if they hadn't stolen one of my Bonaventure phot...
09/10/2024

Here's a decent article about Midnight that would have been even better if they hadn't stolen one of my Bonaventure photos for their artwork.

If you have ever visited or enjoyed pictures of Savannah, Georgia, you may remember the beautiful iconic fountain in Forsyth Park, the…

This is happening here, be aware of who you book your tours through.
08/21/2024

This is happening here, be aware of who you book your tours through.

08/21/2024

It’s a rainy night in Georgia.

I’m an hour late but happy Light House day! Here’s a shot of the Cockspur lighthouse I took a few years ago.
08/08/2024

I’m an hour late but happy Light House day! Here’s a shot of the Cockspur lighthouse I took a few years ago.

08/06/2024
One of the last magnolia flowers of the year.
06/26/2024

One of the last magnolia flowers of the year.

Busy day in the cemetery
06/21/2024

Busy day in the cemetery

Some sad news from Laurel Grove Cemetery South. A giant Live Oak fell and damaged several graves. It's hard to tell how ...
06/17/2024

Some sad news from Laurel Grove Cemetery South. A giant Live Oak fell and damaged several graves. It's hard to tell how many are broken, but there's a giant pile of limbs now where there should be monuments.

Laurel Grove South is the resting place of many of Savannah's early Black religious leaders and notable figures from the Civil Rights era, including Savannah's W.W. Law. I'll add a link to more info on Law in the first comment. To be clear, Law's monument was not damaged.

On most of my tours I tell people that during new Moons and full Moons, the tides can sometimes cover the marsh. This ph...
06/06/2024

On most of my tours I tell people that during new Moons and full Moons, the tides can sometimes cover the marsh. This photo is from two days ago, when we had a new Moon.

That's Tybee, and you can see Fort Pulaski at the bottom left.

Our little slice of heaven....
(hightide)

📸 by Kiki Greenwood

Y’all smell this magnolia!
04/28/2024

Y’all smell this magnolia!

I didn’t get a chance to see this eclipse but here’s a throwback to 2017, when my son and I saw it from Lake Santee in S...
04/09/2024

I didn’t get a chance to see this eclipse but here’s a throwback to 2017, when my son and I saw it from Lake Santee in South Carolina.

The Adler monument. Photo by my buddy, Bonnie
04/02/2024

The Adler monument. Photo by my buddy, Bonnie

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330 Bonaventure Road
Savannah, GA
31404

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Wednesday 10am - 10pm
Thursday 10am - 10pm
Friday 10am - 10pm
Saturday 10am - 10pm
Sunday 10am - 10pm

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It’s a rainy night in Georgia.

Here's a short timelapse I made a while back from the top of the Perry Lane Hotel. Hope y'all enjoy!

I had the honor of giving a group from the Georgia Battlefields Association a tour of the cemetery today. It rained on us almost the entire time but that didn’t stop one of my guests from whipping out his little travel Martin guitar and giving us a taste of Johnny Mercer.

A selection of the white camellias in Bonaventure Cemetery. Feel free to hum your favorite background music. If only I knew a musician.

If you’ve ever wanted to watch a full minute of pink camellias, now’s your chance. I wanted to make a quick movie of Bonaventure’s camellias but the whole thing turn out to be way too long. So, I’m dividing them up by color. I’ll get the red ones up soon, then wrap it up with the white.

Not Bonaventure related at all but my wife and I were at Plant Riverside tonight for an outdoor music thing and I grabbed this video during the show. Hope y’all enjoy.

I can’t give tours but I can still enjoy the view.

I’d like to vicariously share with y’all the first of many batches of boiled peanuts I’ll cook this year. If you think you don’t like boiled peanuts, you should try mine.

Hope you enjoy this short time lapse of the Wilmington River, taken from the bluff at Bonaventure.

Here’s a short time lapse I made in Bonaventure’s neighbor, Greenwich Cemetery. Not many people visit this area now but back in silent film times several movies were made on these grounds. When this was Greenwich Plantation, this pond was an aquatic garden. Hope y’all enjoy.

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