Sparta Cemetery-GHS-070-2-Hancock Co
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N 33° 16.644 W 082° 58.380
17S E 316254 N 3683776
Near the intersection of E. Hamilton St and Boland St. in Sparta
Waymark Code: WM6GWF
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 06/02/2009
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The main cemetery in Sparta was established on property deeded to the town in 1806. Burials illustrate a common nineteenth-century pattern of migration to the area, as settlers from New England and Virginia moved south and west through the Carolinas and into Georgia. Notable burials include Methodist Bishop George Foster Pierce, president of Wesleyan College in Macon and of Emory College in Oxford, Georgia; prominent nineteenth-century statesmen Dr. William Terrell and Gen. Henry Mitchell; and veterans of American wars dating back to the Revolution. Sparta Cemetery also contains examples of funerary art representative of architectural styles of the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 070-HS2
Date: 2006.11
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Society and Sparta Cemetery Association
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