Rose Hill Cemetery
Newspaper publisher and civic promoter Simri Rose laid out Rose Hill Cemetery in 1840 along the bluffs of the Ocmulgee River, designing it as both a public park and a burial ground in the new garden-cemetery style. Over the next century its terraced hillsides took in Macon's founding families, the enslaved, and some six hundred Confederate and Union dead who died in the city's wartime hospitals. Visitors wandering the moss-draped graves after dusk speak of soldiers still marching in tattered formation, a child who darts laughing between the headstones, and a sudden, unaccountable chill that settles on the back of the neck. Most persistent of all is the Rose Hill Shapeshifter, a shadow said to drift among the monuments and change its shape as you watch, a figure caught on video and whispered about in Macon long after the gates close at dusk.
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