Laurel Grove Cemetery
Laid out on a former Springfield Plantation rice field and opened for burials in 1853, Laurel Grove was Savannah's grand Victorian answer to the overflowing Colonial Park Cemetery, its lush plantings and carved stones echoing Green-Wood and Père Lachaise. Split into a North ground for white residents and a South ground that became one of the Southeast's most significant burial places for free and enslaved Black Savannahians, it holds more than 1,500 Confederate soldiers, two dozen mayors, a Supreme Court justice, and Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low. Visitors speak of a woman in a white Victorian burial gown who drifts among the monuments and vanishes when watched, and of disembodied hands that seem to creep out from behind the headstones toward the unwary. Older still is the tale of trolley car #28, whose passengers heard a child weeping as they passed the gates yet never found the source. Heavy footsteps are said to fall in step behind those who walk the paths alone, ceasing only when spoken to.
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