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Bonaventure Cemetery is a rural cemetery located on a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River, southeast of downtown Savannah, Georgia. [1] The cemetery's prominence grew when it was featured in the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, and in the subsequent movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, based on the book. [3]
The Gaston Tomb (also known as the Stranger's Tomb) is a tomb in Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. It was built in memory of William Gaston, a prominent merchant in Savannah who died in 1837. The tomb was built seven years later, initially in Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery. It was moved to Bonaventure in 1873. [1] [2]
Bonaventure Plantation was a plantation founded in colonial Savannah, Province of Georgia, on land now occupied by Greenwich and Bonaventure cemeteries. The site was 600 acres (2.4 km 2), including a plantation house and private cemetery, located on the Wilmington River, about 3.5 miles (6 kilometres) east of the Savannah colony.
Established in 1992, Bonaventure Historical Society came about when a retired school teacher and some friends took action to preserve and share the histories of the cemetery’s best-known figures ...
Cemeteries aren’t conventional tourist destinations, but they’ve become essential stops for history buffs, aesthetes and curious visitors alike.
This page categorizes burials at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. Pages in category "Burials at Bonaventure Cemetery" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
The grave has been called "one of the most visited sites in Bonaventure Cemetery". [5] Tours visit her grave to mark her birthday each year. Her parents are buried elsewhere, having moved back to their native northeastern United States a few years later: her father in Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro, Vermont, and her mother in Albany Rural ...
Basket Creek Cemetery Lott Cemetery. Andersonville National Historic Site; Basket Creek Cemetery; Behavior Cemetery; Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, made famous by the Bird Girl sculpture featured on the cover of the book, and in the movie of, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil