08/05/2024
Directly across the street from Queen Anne's Condo. Come stay with us
Colonial Park Cemetery is one of Savannah's most haunted locations. We call it "Ghost Central". Born in 1750 to replace a chaotic, unorganized burial site, this cemetery is known to have almost 11,000 burials including the remains of Yellow Fever victims who died in the Yellow Fever Outbreak of 1820. The cemetery stopped taking new burials in 1853, about 8 years before the start of The Civil War. Union soldiers used this cemetery as a camping ground during Sherman's occupation of Savannah and allegedly vandalized and desecrated many graves, markers and crypts there. Bayonets were used to change names and dates of birth and death, for instance, one very large grave marker says the person died at 421 years old! The remains of major general Nathanael Greene (1742–1786) reposed in the cemetery's Graham vault between 1786 and 1901. His body went missing for 115 years until a proposed monument was in the works at which point they where finally located reposing in The Graham Vault. General Greene's body was then reinterred in Johnson Square, along with the remains of his eldest son, George Washington Greene. His remains had shared the vault with those of John Maitland, his arch-rival in the Revolutionary War! Colonial Park was made a city park in 1896. Button Gwinnett, one of the signers of The Declaration Of Independence is buried there. To say this piece of land, smack dab in the middle of Savannah's Historic District is haunted is an understatement! Here we see paranormal activity practically on a daily basis, year round. Colonial Park's ghosts are many and varied and Lots of strange things happen here. Pictured here is the front gate with the beautiful Eagle and the DAR inscription which stands for Daughters Of The American Revolution: Dar.org. DAR helped erect this entrance and put a fence around the property in 1913-1914. It is here that we often observe incredible phenomena such as this sideways lightning. The image was taken by our customer Pete on Monday during our Haunted Pub Crawl. He was kind enough to share it. Thanks Pete. Tickets on sale on our website:
www.SpookySavannahGhostTours.com
