This map from 1818 shows the southeaster portion of Savannah. Oglethorpe
Avenue was at that time called South Broad St. Colonial Cemetery is labeled
"Burial Ground". Liberty St. represented the southern boundary of the city
proper, with the jail, defensive walls and the City Common extending further
south. Just to the left of the "C" in "CITY COMMON" is the "Negro Ground",
which was the cemetery for African-Americans for the first 100 years of
slavery in Savannah. Many of the graves were removed to Laurel Grove South;
the rest lay buried under the streets and homes in the vicinityof
Taylor, Huntingdon, Abercorn, and Lincoln Streets.
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