City Cemetery (Sandersville, Georgia)

City Cemetery, also known as the Sandersville Old City Cemetery, is located in Sandersville, Georgia. Old City Cemetery began as the cemetery of the local Methodist Episcopal Church.

Old City Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	100 Virginia Ave., Sandersville, GA
Coordinates	32°58′57″N 82°48′54″W
Area	5.5 acres (2.2 ha)
NRHP reference No.	87001296[1]
Added to NRHP	August 3, 1987

Eventually the cemetery expanded to its current 5.5 acres (2.2 ha) which is surrounded by West Church Street to the South, West Haynes Street to the North, Virginia Avenue to the East, and private property to the West.[2]

Thomas W. Hardwick, a former U.S. senator who later became Georgia's governor, was buried in the cemetery after his death in 1944.[3]

City Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1]

Victorian sculpture at the cemetery

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. "Old City Cemetery : History". Sandersville Old City Cemetery Committee. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
3. "Thomas William Hardwick". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2014-08-13.