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James Habersham & Sons, Georgia Pioneers

Colonial Park Cemetery James Habersham (1712? – 28 August 1775) was one of the most prominent merchants and public servants of the Colonial Era in Georgia. Soon after his arrival in the colony in 1738, he helped establish, with Reverend … Continue reading

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Lachlan & James S. McIntosh, Georgia Pioneers

Colonial Park Cemetery General Lachlan McIntosh (17 March 1725 – 20 February 1826) Colonel John S. McIntosh (1784 – 1847) General Lachlan McIntosh, whose father John Mor Mackintosh founded the seaport town of Darien, was Georgia’s most illustrious officer in … Continue reading

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Hugh McCall, Author of the First History of Georgia

Colonial Park Cemetery 17 February 1767 – 10 June 1824 McCall published the first installment in his History of Georgia at Savannah in 1811.

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James Johnston, Georgia’s First Newspaper Publisher

Colonial Park Cemetery 1738 – 1808 Johnston, a native of Scotland, came to Savannah in 1761, and was appointed Public Printer of the Province the following year. The first issue of Georgia’s first newspaper, The Georgia Gazette, was brought out … Continue reading

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The Graham Vault

Colonial Park Cemetery For 114 years, the remains of the prominent Revolutionary War Major General Nathanael Greene (7 August 1742 – 19 June 1786) and his eldest son, George Washington Greene, were interred here. They were exhumed and reinterred at … Continue reading

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Rosannah & John Millen, Georgia Pioneers

Colonial Park Cemetery Rosannah (1751? – 24 February 1810) = John (1757? – 28 October 1811)

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John Kreeger, Georgia Pioneer

Colonial Park Cemetery July 1754 – 26 April 1800

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Reverend Jean Baptiste Le Moine, First Catholic Priest in Savannah

Colonial Park Cemetery died 1794 A refugee of the French Revolution, Reverend Le Moine was formerly the Cure of Morley Le Roi.

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John & Sarah Ann Screven, Georgia Pioneers

Colonial Park Cemetery John ( 1767? – November 1820) = Sarah Ann (1788? – June 1823)

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Button Gwinnett Memorial, Colonial Park Cemetery

Button Gwinnett (1732-35? – 1777), one of Georgia’s Signers of the Declaration of Independence, was also elected to the Continental Congress and President of the Georgia Council of Safety. Though chosen to head the Continental Batallion for Georgia in the … Continue reading

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