Wednesday, November 16, 2011

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Savannah, Georgia

I love almost everything about this town!  At every intersection, there are beautiful squares (parks) with lush greenery, beautiful historic statues, and moss everywhere.  It is a wonderful town to walk around.  I also love the old, historic buildings!!  Great place to visit.

I can't get enough of these wonderful, old buildings! 
























This is another thing I love about Savannah; all the green space!  There are squares all throughout the downtown area.   There are all kinds of history markers and statues in the squares telling something about Savannah history.














NICE CHURCH!








They just look SO silly!


Nice car!

This was an interesting tree; I have no idea what it is.  There doesn't seem to be any bark on it, it is just very smooth.  It was pretty.






Now, this is the part of Savannah I don't like.  In my opinion, this is cruely to animals; to make these poor horses haul around fat-assed humans!  Just once, I'd like to see the horses sitting in the buggy with the humans pulling them around!  It's so disgusting!








As if being hooked up to this buggy dragging these humans around isn't bad enough, the driver carries a whip [I assume] to beat the horses if they don't move fast enough.  Ugh!  PLEASE, someone give that stick to the horse to beat the human with!


Colonial Park and Bonaventure Cemeteries

Colonial Park served as Savannah’s cemetery for more than a century and contains over nine thousand graves. Established in 1750, by 1789 it had been expanded three times to reach the current size of six acres. Nearly everyone who died in Savannah between 1750 and July of 1853 was buried there. The cemetery closed in 1853 after becoming so crowded and unkept that citizens petitioned for a new place to bury their dead. The city then developed plantation land into Laurel Grove Cemetery, and at about the same time Bonaventure and Cathedral cemeteries were established. Some families with burials in Colonial Park moved the remains of their loved ones to these new cemeteries.

 














 





Bonaventure Cemetery was developed on the historically-significant site of Bonaventure Plantation. The peaceful setting rests on a scenic bluff of the Wilmington River, east of Savannah. The site was purchased for a private cemetery in 1846 and became a public cemetery in 1907. This charming site has been a world famous tourist destination for more than 150 years due to the old tree-lined roadways, the many notable persons interred, the unique cemetery sculpture and architecture, and the folklore associated with the site and the people.


This is so elaborate!




Little Gracie is the most popular resident in Bonaventure.














The Veterans Area




For some unknown reason, there were a bunch of
Corvettes in the cemetery today!