The God's Acre Cemetery Tour

09/30/2023

A hearty congrats to our The God's Acre Cemetery Tour guide, Ken Rimes for making such a great impact on these guests!

09/17/2023

A Bonaventure Cemetery angel remembers a tragic day in The World's Tallest Building in 1945.

09/15/2023

Great going to guide Lazarus Bone for earning such a remarkable review! To each his own of course on matter of ghosts of which Colonial Park is historically famed for long before ghost tours was a concept but we're just delighted to have delivered up what these clients were looking for!

09/14/2023

Some of the many faces that shaped Georgia, The South, Savannah, and the USA before there was such a place less we mention the world! Come meet just a portion of them on The God's Acre Cemetery Tour www.godsacretour.com

06/08/2023

We're really breathing new life into Savannah's "Old Burying Ground" with early morning & early evening God's Acre Tours! thingstodo

Explore Colonial Park Cemetery, the biggest story spot in the whole Historic District of Savannah, and learn its fascinating history!

05/15/2023

05/13/2023

Before the advent of photography, miniature portraits were commissioned of loved ones. Edward Malbone was the the greatest of all miniaturists. His work (watercolor on ivory) is displayed at The Met, Smithsonian and in private collections throughout the world

03/31/2022

One of the oldest human engaged traditions in a cemetery belongs to this simple act.

01/12/2022

If walls could talk, this one may hold quite the cornucopia of tales.

This Saturday, join rogue storyteller Lazarus Bone from 4:00 to 5:30 as he steps from the shadows and indulges you with his presentation of God's Acre Cemetery for its sublime, surreal and stranger than fiction qualities that include the ominous Old City Jail watching over the 10,000 souls. Hear of the hanging tree, the mass yellow fever graves, the dueling grounds and all of the tragedy and triumph in the most story packed hour in the most story packed space where time stopped a very long time ago but stirs again for you and will have everyone asking, "Who Is Lazarus Bone?"

Tickets: www.shannonscott.com

12/20/2021

Most thankful for another lovely review of our most remarkable Lazarus Bone! Colonial Park is full of rich stories and no one knows her better than Lazarus himself. We do hope you'll come roam God's Acre with us soon!

10/31/2021

Happy Halloween all! Lazarus Bone was privileged enough to story some descendants of Nathaniel Greene in Colonial Park this week. We hear they're considering having their family reunion in Savannah next year!

10/25/2021

Join the mysterious Lazarus Bone this Halloween weekend as he weaves his spell-binding tales of the macabre in Savannah's oldest extant cemetery! Sure to be an hour packed full of Savannah's richest stories of the Old City Jail, Conrad Aiken, the Yellow Fever plague, and much more! Visit www.shannonscott.com for tickets!

10/20/2021

"I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls
The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls,
And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust."
-Longfellow

10/19/2021

“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.” This verse from Psalm 137 captures the essence of the willow tree when seen on headstones. A popular symbol in the 1700s and later, this forlorn tree has many meanings beyond the traditional sorrowful connotations we associate with it.

The incredible hardiness of the willow lends itself to also symbolizing strength, regeneration, and immortality. As long as the root system stays intact, a willow tree is capable of completely re-growing, even if it is razed nearly to the ground. When we contemplate death and the everlasting, the willow stands as reminder that though we may be laid low by death and sadness, there will be a rebirth and a chance for new beginnings.

Here we see the willow paired with an urn, signifying the return to ashes out of ashes; a further meditation on the partition of death to everlasting life beyond.

10/05/2021

Superstition comes into play with the reporting of the 1820 Yellow Fever victims buried in our very own Colonial Park. Notice the "nearly" on the grave marker?

Like much of Savannah, Colonial Park Cemetery has a harrowing distinction as the final resting place of hundreds of yellow fever victims.