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Catholic Cemetery

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1853. Wheaton and E. Gwinnett sts. at Skidaway Rd.

As Colonial Park Cemetery (6.21) closed and Laurel Grove excluded Catholics, Bishop Frances Xavier Gartland purchased eight acres of land, which was eventually enlarged to twenty-eight and laid out in a loosely gridded manner to provide burial for nearly 18,000. No Savannah monument is grander than that of Captain John Flannery, Civil War veteran, Savannah business leader, and benefactor of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (8.19) after the fire of 1898.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Catholic Cemetery", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-13.9.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 217-217.

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