Colonial Park Cemetery

Established in 1758 as the burial ground of Christ Church parish, Colonial Park Cemetery served Savannah's dead for nearly a century before closing in 1853; it holds Revolutionary-era figures including Declaration of Independence signer Button Gwinnett and Georgia revolutionary leader Archibald Bulloch, along with mass graves from the city's repeated yellow fever epidemics. Its best-known legend is Rene Rondolier, an unusually tall man accused of murdering two girls in the 1700s and hanged from a tree at the cemetery's edge without trial; visitors describe seeing his figure moving among the graves and near the old hanging tree at the rear of the grounds.