Awesome graveyard ......Bonaventure Cemetery , Savannah , Georgia
Bonaventure Cemetery - Savannah, Georgia Coast, Georgia, United States
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Bonaventure Cemetery Savannah
Featured in the popular novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, this cemetery is the final resting place of famous Savannah citizens such as Conrad Aiken and songwriter Johnny Mercer.
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- ... We didn't get to the famous and beautiful Bonaventure Cemetery and we missed the original Bird Girl who was moved from there to the Telfair Museum, but I ...
- ... By Lona Tucker's recommendation the human's visited Bonaventure Cemetery, to which we'll appeal to John Muir's historic description, as it captures the essence ...
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- Savannah, Georgia Coast, Georgia, United States
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- Outside of the Bonaventure Cemetery by Bashleyf from a blog titled Back in the south
- Bonaventure Cemetery by Yeardleys from a blog titled LOVE LOVE LOVE Savannah!
- Bonaventure cemetery by Lagalag1 from a blog titled Savanna 2nd Day
LCV Cities Tour - Savannah: Bonaventure Cemetery
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Bonaventure Cemetery Beautiful Photo Tour
Recent photo's of yet another awesome visit to Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. Identified the location of the Bird Girl and have more of Little Gracie Watson, Conrad Aiken & parents site, Johnny Mercer and more.
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Savannah, GA
Famous Cemetery Series: Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
Bonaventure is a beautiful southern cemetery. It was made famous the popular novel and then movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The Bird Girl statue featured in the book cover and the movie is not in the cemetery.
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Bonaventure Cemetery, is located in Savannah, Georgia, beneath grand oak trees draped with Spanish moss.
It is one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the United States.
It gained fame from the novel and later the movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Bonaventure Cemetery's Underground Grotto Chapels
A forgotten part of Bonaventure's mystique are the grotto chapels of the Victorian Age. This is that more than meets the eye factor that we love about cemeteries of this era. Our job is to reveal the hidden of these aspects for our viewers and guests and hope you enjoy this latest reveal. Questions? Ask below and dont forget to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE as it keeps us motivated! Thank you!
Historic Savannah Georgia - Forsyth Park & Bonaventure Cemetery
Savannah's Forsyth Park, River Street shops, public squares, Civil War memorials, Bonaventure Cemetery, and famous horse drawn carriage rides.
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Bonaventure Cemetery Tour - Savannah's Enchanted Garden
Views of Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, GA as our little Bailea (granddaughter) saw it. Locals say Bonaventure (meaning good travel) was to be a place of memory as well as peaceful relaxation. Though there are reminders of death, it has an enchanted park-like feel.
Graves of Corinne Lawton, Gracie Watson, Conrad Aiken and his tragic parents, soldiers, artists, children, murderers, young mothers, old men ... they all lie together at Bonaventure. The memorials in this cemetery rival any public art. One can't help but be inspired after a reflective walk through this magical place.
Savannah is enchanting like Ireland. It's magnetic. It makes you want to return.
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Visiting Little Gracie in Bonaventure Cemetery
As promised, here is the famous resting place of one of Savannah's sweetest ghosts.
The strange history of Bonaventure Cemetery
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Haunted Bonaventure Cemetery
This is my first video! I have to share my pictures from my visit at the Bonaventure Cemetery in Georgia. I'm going to make a better one for you! The little girl in the pictures is Gracie Watson. She is a favorite in the Cemetery. Enjoy!
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Strolling through the back part of Bonaventure Cemetery - by the water way
Greenwich At Bonaventure Cemetery-Savannah GA's Own Biltmore House-Forgotten No Longer
Did you know that Savannah, Georgia, once had its own Biltmore House? Few people who visit Bonaventure Cemetery do.
We hope that this video will serve as an introduction to the grounds and gardens of Greenwich and as a revival of the memory of the grandeur that once existed in Savannah.
It is possible to visit Bonaventure today and overlook the few remnants of the opulent estate that once stood nearby. The man who built this beautiful mansion, Spencer P. Shotter, a successful businessman, who was a part of of the New York City social scene with the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers and Carnegies. He held a worldwide monopoly in the naval stores industry circa 1900, yet is completely unknown to the many tour groups and visitors navigating Bonaventure Cemetery, even though they pass directly by the Shotter family gravesite there. There are many stories in Bonaventure to be told other than the Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil lore and tales of Johnny Mercer.
The massive three story, 40 room mansion, was adorned with a double colonnade of 26 columns on three of its sides. Its grand hall inside had 18 columns and was exquisitely decorated. The home’s interior and beautifully landscaped grounds held priceless, ancient works of art and statuary. Two of Savannah’s most prominent families exchanged ownership of Greenwich before a massive fire completely destroyed the mansion in 1923. One young child, who survived the fire by jumping from a second story window, is still with us today. Time and the unceremonious disposal of the ruins have allowed the Shotters and Greenwich to fade from memory.
In our research, we were able to acquire new photographs for our collection to complement our original hand colored postcards from the 1920s, including a panoramic photo showing the large greenhouse that was once a part of the grounds and copies of the original architectural plans of the mansion. Not always the best quality but all that remains.
The Gilded Age in Savannah ended amidst the ashes of Greenwich. We hope you’ll help us bring back to life the memory of this lost treasure and that you enjoy our film. Piano by Sam Hayman. Visit us at eArtFilm.com or at greenwichatbonaventure.com
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, GA, Infrared Photos
Bonaventure Cemetery is probably the most famous cemetery in Savannah. This cemetery was featured in the book and movie, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. It is a great setting for taking photographs and in this case I used a digital infrared camera. This series, I left the color cast in the photos. I have also posted a version in black and white.
Savannah: Garden of Good and Evil (Bonaventure Cemetery)
Bonaventure Cemetery is a rural cemetery located on a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River, east of Savannah, Georgia.
The cemetery became famous when it was featured in the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, and in the movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, based on the book. It is the largest of the city's municipal cemeteries, containing nearly 160 acres (0.65 km2).
The entrance to the cemetery is located at 330 Bonaventure Road. Immediately inside the gates is the large and ornate Gaston's Tomb.
The cemetery is located on the site of a plantation originally owned by John Mullryne. On March 10, 1846, Commodore Josiah Tattnall, Jr., sold the 600-acre (2.4 km2) Bonaventure Plantation and its private cemetery to Peter Wiltberger. Major William H. Wiltberger, the son of Peter, formed the Evergreen Cemetery Company on June 12, 1868. On July 7, 1907 the City of Savannah purchased the Evergreen Cemetery Company, making the cemetery public and changing the name to Bonaventure Cemetery.
In 1867 John Muir began his Thousand Mile Walk to Florida and the Gulf. In October he sojourned for six days and nights in the Bonaventure cemetery, sleeping upon graves overnight, this being the safest and cheapest accommodation that he could find while he waited for money to be expressed from home. He found the cemetery even then breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring and wrote a lengthy chapter upon it, Camping in the Tombs.
The most conspicuous glory of Bonaventure is its noble avenue of live-oaks. They are the most magnificent planted trees I have ever seen, about fifty feet high and perhaps three or four feet in diameter, with broad spreading leafy heads. The main branches reach out horizontally until they come together over the driveway, embowering it throughout its entire length, while each branch is adorned like a garden with ferns, flowers, grasses, and dwarf palmettos.
But of all the plants of these curious tree-gardens the most striking and characteristic is the so-called Long Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). It drapes all the branches from top to bottom, hanging in long silvery-gray skeins, reaching a length of not less than eight or ten feet, and when slowly waving in the wind they produce a solemn funereal effect singularly impressive.
There are also thousands of smaller trees and clustered bushes, covered almost from sight in the glorious brightness of their own light. The place is half surrounded by the salt marshes and islands of the river, their reeds and sedges making a delightful fringe. Many bald eagles roost among the trees along the side of the marsh. Their screams are heard every morning, joined with the noise of crows and the songs of countless warblers, hidden deep in their dwellings of leafy bowers. Large flocks of butterflies, flies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. The whole place seems like a center of life. The dead do not reign there alone.
Bonaventure to me is one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met. I was fresh from the Western prairies, the garden-like openings of Wisconsin, the beech and maple and oak woods of Indiana and Kentucky, the dark mysterious Savannah cypress forests; but never since I was allowed to walk the woods have I found so impressive a company of trees as the tillandsia-draped oaks of Bonaventure.
I gazed awe-stricken as one new-arrived from another world. Bonaventure is called a graveyard, a town of the dead, but the few graves are powerless in such a depth of life. The rippling of living waters, the song of birds, the joyous confidence of flowers, the calm, undisturbable grandeur of the oaks, mark this place of graves as one of the Lord’s most favored abodes of life and light.
The cover photograph for the best selling book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, taken by Jack Leigh, featured an evocative sculpture of a young girl, the so-called Bird Girl, that had been in the cemetery, essentially unnoticed for over 50 years. After the publication of the book, the sculpture was relocated from the cemetery in 1997 for display in Telfair Museums in Savannah. In late 2014, the statue was moved to a dedicated space in the Telfair Museums' Jepson Center for the Arts on West York Street, in Savannah.
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