From my ‘Walking Old Graveyards’ YouTube channel: a quiet walk around a beautiful small-town cemetery in South Georgia
This small city cemetery should not be confused with the much larger Andersonville National Cemetery located on the other side of the community.
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Walking Around the Old Cemetery at Andersonville, Georgia
Visits to historic, old cemeteries and graveyards fit right in with my interest in abandoned places and historic architecture. I often find incredible, forgotten graveyards in my explorations of small towns and abandoned places.
This video is the latest installment on my Walking Old Graveyards channel on YouTube, where I post walk-around videos in old graveyards, ranging from small family plots along a back road to iconic and beautiful cemeteries like the Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville Alabama or the massive Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
Historic Andersonville, Georgia
During the American Civil War, Andersonville was home to a dreadful Confederate prisoner-of-war camp where Union soldiers were held in such horrific conditions that there were thousands of deaths in the camp. Treatment of the prisoners was so bad that camp commandant Henry Wirz was convicted of war crimes after the war.
In the 1970s, local leadership spearheaded an effort to generate tourism by redeveloping the town’s main street to look as it did during the Civil War era.