The story
Hauntingly beautiful Victorian cemetery draped in Spanish moss along the Wilmington River. Made famous by the Bird Girl statue on the cover of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (statue now in Telfair Museum). Final resting place of songwriter Johnny Mercer, poet Conrad Aiken, and many of Savannah's founding families. Originally the Tattnall family plantation.
Everything that was here
- 1846–present · still open
Bonaventure Cemeterycemetery
Hauntingly beautiful Victorian cemetery draped in Spanish moss along the Wilmington River. Made famous by the Bird Girl statue on the cover of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" (statue now in Telfair Museum).…
See the map in 1847 → - 1762–1846
Bonaventure Plantationplantation
Before becoming a cemetery, this was the Bonaventure plantation owned by the Tattnall family. During the Revolutionary War, British officers were dining at the plantation house when it caught fire. Rather than flee,…
See the map in 1763 →
Nearby history
Johnny Harris Restaurant
Bethel AME Church
Fort Jackson (Old Fort Jackson)
King-Tisdell Cottage Museum
Beach Institute
Elizabeth on 37th
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