51 Cemeteries Project: # 44 Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah GA

I wasn't alone in taking pictures at the Bonaventure Cemetery on the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia. The cemetery is not only popular among tourists for it's old headstones, but it is the cemetery in the book and movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." The cemetery is located on the Wilmington River and is the largest municipal cemetery in Savannah.

This was one of the most moving graves/statues I've come across so far in the cemetery project. Gracie Watson's father W.J. Watson, managed a hotel in downtown Savannah called the Pulaski House in the 1880s. Gracie lived at the hotel with her mother and father. Gracie became known as the "star of Pulaski house" as she charmed the guests (many of them returning guests) with her beauty and playfulness. At the age of six, Gracie contracted pneumonia and two days after Easter died. Her devastated father, before he left Savannah for good, commissioned Savannah artist John Waltz to design this sculpture, which more than 100 years after her death, still has a regular visitors paying their respects to little Gracie Watson.

For more info about Bonaventure Cemetery check out this web site: http://www.bonaventurehistorical.org/

Circular Church Cemetery, Charleston SC

Because Charleston is known for it's ghosts and cemeteries, I decided to break format and post two cemeteries from the same state. Circular Church Cemetery is located in heart of downtown Charleston, and is one of the oldest cemetery in Charleston. This first picture sums up how the years have not been kind to a number of head stones.

For more info Circular Church, you can check out their web site @ http://www.circularchurch.org/

51 Cemteries Project: #45 Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston SC

Magnolia Cemetery is located on the banks of the Cooper River in historic Charleston South Carolina. The cemetery was established in 1850 and is located on the site of a former rice plantation. It is the final resting place for a number of Southern leaders and hundreds of Confederate soldiers and Generals.

In the distance is the very impressive Cooper River Bridge which was built in 2005.

Want more info on Magnolia Cemetery? It's web site is www.scocr.org/Links/MagnoliaCemetery.htm

51 Cemeteries Project: #46 Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore MD

Green Mount Cemetey is located a couple of miles from downtown Baltimore. It was established in 1838, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. John Wilkes Booth is buried here,

For more info on this cemetery, check out their web site @ http://www.greenmountcemetery.com/