City Cemetery (Sandersville, Georgia)

Old City Cemetery
Location 100 Virginia Ave., Sandersville, GA
Coordinates 32°58′57″N 82°48′54″W / 32.9825°N 82.815°W / 32.9825; -82.815Coordinates: 32°58′57″N 82°48′54″W / 32.9825°N 82.815°W / 32.9825; -82.815
Area 5.5 acres (2.2 ha)
NRHP Reference # 87001296[1]
Added to NRHP August 3, 1987

City Cemetery, also known as the Sandersville Old City Cemetery, is located in Sandersville, Georgia. Old City Cemetery began as the cemetery of the local Methodist Episcopal Church.

Eventually the cemetery expanded to its current 5.5 acres (2.2 ha) which is surrounded by West Church Street to the South, West Haynes Street to the North, Virginia Avenue to the East, and private property to the West.[2]

Thomas W. Hardwick, a former U.S. senator who later became Georgia's governor, was buried in the cemetery after his death in 1944.[3]

City Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

Victorian sculpture at the cemetery

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Old City Cemetery : History". Sandersville Old City Cemetery Committee. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
  3. "Thomas William Hardwick". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2014-08-13.


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