Oak Grove Cemetery
Laid out by the City of Brunswick in 1838 as its first public burial ground, Oak Grove holds more than 1,200 graves beneath ancient live oaks dripping with Spanish moss, including some 115 Union and Confederate soldiers and hundreds of unmarked and unknown dead. The city's hard 19th-century history of hurricanes and yellow-fever epidemics filled these three acres faster than the markers could keep up, and after decades of neglect the grounds fell into a tangled, half-forgotten quiet. Today the cemetery anchors Brunswick's Old Town ghost-tourism, with hearse-borne and walking tours threading its gates after dark, where visitors describe a heavy stillness and the sense of being watched among the leaning, weathered stones. The most enduring tales speak of restless soldiers and epidemic victims who never got a proper marker, drifting between the oaks long after the mourners went home.
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