Colonial Park
at Abercorn and East Oglethorpe Streets
Savannah's 18th and early 19th century Burying Ground, owned by Christ Church but used by most of the city's population, is the last resting place of such founding families as the Jones' and the Habersham's as well as many victims of the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1820. After it was closed to further burials in 1853, it eventually was acquired by the city and rehabilitated as a park, with new fencing and pathways, and the removal of broken grave markers to the east wall, where they still rest.