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Memory Hill Cemetery is an American cemetery in Milledgeville, Georgia. The cemetery opened in 1804. Notable interments. Thomas Petters Carnes (1762–1822), United States Representative for Georgia and state court judge. George Pierce Doles (1830–1864), Georgia businessman and Confederate general during the American Civil War.
For years this was known as The Milledgeville City Cemetery until the name was changed to Memory Hill Cemetery in the 1960's. The cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the historic district of Milledgeville, GA - primarily because Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia from 1807 to 1868.
This cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Historic District of Milledgeville. Originally called Cemetery Square, Memory Hill was designated as one of the four public squares of 20 acres each in the Milledgeville town plan of 1803.
- 300 Franklin St, Milledgeville, 31061, GA
History of Memory Hill Cemetery. Milledgeville, founded in 1803, was Georgia's 4th capital and served as capital from 1804 until 1868. As part of the planning of Milledgeville in December, 1804, four public squares of 20 acres each were established, with one square (the South square) set aside for public use. In 1807 the new statehouse, though ...
This resulted in the publication of the Historic Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia, 1804-1997, by Susan J. Harrington, Hugh T. Harrington, and Floride Moore Gardner (Editors), published by Boyd Publishing Company, Milledgeville, GA, 1998 (759 pages).
Memory Hill Cemetery is located on what was once South Square in the historic city of Milledgeville, Georgia. Dating to the early 1800s, the cemetery is a remarkable place to trace Georgia's history in stone. The cemetery was established in around 1809 when a Methodist church was built on South Square. Milledgeville was then only six
Memory Hill Cemetery, Lewis Holmes Kenan (Co. I., 1st GA Reg.) (Jan. 18, 1833-July 3, 1871) was wounded July 7, 1864 at John’s Island, SC. He was State Senator and Secretary of the Georgia Senate. He was murdered on Hancock Street by John R. Strother, who had recently married Kenan’s father’s widow.
