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Laurel Grove Cemetery is a cemetery located in midtown Savannah, Georgia.It includes the original cemetery for white people (now known as Laurel Grove North) and a companion burial ground (called Laurel Grove South) that was reserved for slaves and free people of color.
The city of Savannah, Georgia, the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, is the birthplace and home of several notable individuals. This is a list of people from Savannah, Georgia, and includes people that were born or lived in Savannah, Georgia, for a non-trivial amount of time. Individuals included in this listing are ...
A cargo ship leaves the Georgia Ports Authority in Brunswick and heads out toward the Sidney Lanier Bridge. The Dali was departing the Port of Baltimore just before 1:30 a.m.
The cemetery was established in 1750, when Savannah was the capital of the British Province of Georgia, last of the Thirteen Colonies. By 1789 it had expanded three times to reach its current six acres bounded by East Oglethorpe Avenue (to the north), Habersham Street (east), East Perry Lane (south) and Abercorn Street (west). Savannah's ...
In 1969, the staffs of the Savannah Evening Press and the Savannah Morning News merged and in 1972 a combined Sunday edition called the Savannah News-Press was published. As evening newspapers were becoming less profitable due to competition by evening news programs on television, the Evening Press was cancelled, running its last issue on ...
Sidney Easton was born on October 2, 1885, in Savannah, Georgia. [2] [3] However some sources have his date of birth as 1886 or 1891. [1] [2] Easton was the eldest of six children, his parents were Eva and King Easton. [4] In childhood, Easton went to work for the John Robinson Circus and later with the A.G. Allan Minstrel Show. [4]
1998 - Roger K. Warlick, author of As Grain Once Scattered: The History of Christ Church, Savannah, Georgia, 1733-1983, dies and is buried in Christ Church. [23] 2001 - Malcolm R. Maclean, Mayor of Savannah from 1960-66 and former Diocesan Chancellor, dies and is buried in Christ Church. [24]
James Arthur Williams was born in 1930 in Gordon, Georgia, to Arthur Costlar, a barber, and Blanche Brooks Williams. [1] He studied piano at Middle Georgia College and interior design at Ringling College in Sarasota, Florida. [2] He dropped out of Ringling after the second of three years and enrolled at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. [3]