Old City Cemetery (Columbus, Georgia)

	Old City Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Linwood Cemetery in May 2014
Location	721 Linwood Boulevard,; Columbus, Georgia
Coordinates	32°28′39″N 84°58′59″W / 32.4776364°N 84.9829830°W
Built	1828; 196 years ago
Architect	Edward Lloyd Thomas
Architectural style	Gothic, Egyptian Revival
Website	Official website
MPS	Columbus MRA
NRHP reference No.	80001188
Added to NRHP	September 29, 1980

The Old City Cemetery, also known as Linwood Cemetery, is a 28.7-acre (11.6 ha)^[1] cemetery on what is now Linwood Boulevard, in Columbus, Georgia. It dates from 1828, when the town of Columbus was founded, or before. It appears in surveyor Edward Lloyd Thomas's original plan for the city. The cemetery consists mostly of rectangular family plots bordered by iron fences or walls made of brick or granite, accessed by a main east-west corridor and perpendicular lanes. It includes both simple and elaborate tombstones, some displaying Egyptian Revival or Gothic styles.^[2]

The cemetery was given the name "Linwood" in 1894 by city council resolution, probably to honor Columbus author Caroline Lee Hentz whose works include Ernest Linwood, an 1856 book.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

According to its 1978 nomination, the majority of prominent Columbus persons are buried there. Its burials include more than 200 Confederate Army soldiers representing every state in the Confederacy.^[2]

Thomas's own son was an early burial, as he died and was buried in the cemetery in 1828 while Thomas was amidst his work surveying, but apparently the grounds include earlier marked and unmarked graves of "'early traders, river people, and Indians.'"^[2]

Notable burials[edit]

James Abercrombie (1792–1861), US Representative
Henry L. Benning (1814–1875), American Civil War CSA general for whom nearby Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning) was once named
Mark Harden Blandford (1826–1902), CSA Congressman
Absalom Harris Chappell (1801–1878), US Representative
Peyton H. Colquitt (1831–1863), Civil War Confederate officer
Walter T. Colquitt (1799–1855), US Senator
Martin Jenkins Crawford (1820–1883), US Representative and CSA Congressman
Noble Leslie DeVotie (1838–1861), founder of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity^[2]
Thomas Flournoy Foster (1796–1848), US Representative
Hines Holt (1805–1865), US Representative
Porter Ingram (1810–1893), CSA Congressman
Alfred Iverson Sr. (1798–1873), US Representative and Senator
James Johnson (1811–1891), Georgia Governor
Seaborn Jones (1788–1864), US Representative
Thomas M. Nelson (1782–1853), US Representative
Dr. John Stith Pemberton (1831–1888), formulator of Coca-Cola^[2]
Pleasant J. Philips (1819–1876), Civil War Confederate general
Paul Jones Semmes (1815–1863), Civil War Confederate general
Francis Orray Ticknor (1822–1874), doctor and poet^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Nancy Alexander; Roger Harris; Janice P. Biggers (1978). "Georgia AHP Survey-Inventory: Historic Resources of Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia: Linwood Cemetery / Old (City) Cemetery". National Park Service. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
^ Mallard, Joy (September 4, 2013). "Francis Orray Ticknor". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 26, 2022.

External links[edit]

Official website
Old City Cemetery at Find a Grave
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Linwood Cemetery
Historic Linwood Cemetery est. 1828 at Columbus Consolidated Government (CCG) Department of Public Works' Cemetery Division
Cemetery Records Database at CCG Public Services Department Cemetery Records
Dolores Autry Linwood Cemetery Collection at Columbus State University Archives

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpdoc-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Nancy Alexander; Roger Harris; Janice P. Biggers (1978). "Georgia AHP Survey-Inventory: Historic Resources of Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia: Linwood Cemetery / Old (City) Cemetery". National Park Service. Retrieved August 23, 2016.

[mallard-3] Mallard, Joy (September 4, 2013). "Francis Orray Ticknor". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 26, 2022.

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