Laurel Grove Cemetery
Opened for burials in 1853 on a former Springfield Plantation rice field, Laurel Grove was Savannah's grand Victorian answer to the overflowing Colonial Park Cemetery. 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 describe a woman in a white Victorian burial gown who drifts among the monuments and vanishes when watched, disembodied hands creeping from behind headstones, and trolley car #28, whose passengers heard a child weeping at the gates yet found no source. Heavy footsteps fall in step behind lone walkers, ceasing only when spoken to.
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