memorial hill cemetery

Beautiful place to visit and see so much history throughout. I would reccommend anyone to visit this area and learn history that we aren't taught in school

We love to explore old cemeteries. This one had brochures for self guided tours. The weather was beautiful and we enjoyed just walking around, wondering about the people buried there. The highlight was finding Flannery O'Connor's grave.

You could spend as little or a long time walking through this cemetery, just reading headstones and getting a feel for the Milledgeville area over the years.This is one of the Four main Squares of Milledgeville.

There is a lot of history here dating back to the beginning of Milledgeville. I tour this place frequently on an afternoon walk and always find something new. Preservers of this wonderful historical site have just finished some sizemographic work to determine unmarked graves that should prove interesting as more of the area is mapped and more information is revealed. I use this site as part of my "tourist in my own town" venture. I do believe it is also part of the Milledgville Trolley Tour.

I love the history a cemetery tells of an area, and since I am interest in geneology, I'm always following a lead.

While Flannery O'Connor may be the most well-known "resident" of the cemetery, there is much more history here, from a monument to a child soldier (compelte with photo on tombstone) to the plot where many mental patients were buried, without individual notation, through the years at the mental hospital in the area. Sad but interesting. The map at the entrance is helpful. However, when workers are there, blocking entrances, they really need to be a little more considerate of visitors, who have no way of knowing ahead of time, that firemen will be filling up the lanes etc.

The history of named people burried there. Many Civil War heroes and local folks that changed history.

After visiting Andalusia, a look at Flannery O'Connor's grave seemed in order. Thinking I had little chance to locate the grave site, I went to Memory Hill Cemetery anyway. I drove in and noticed a couple standing about 100 yards away. I drove to their location and asked if they knew where Flannery's grave was located. The lady said she did and that she would show me the lolcation. She began trotting up the roadwaly towards the entrance. I followed along behind her in my car. A police vehicle entered the cemetery at that time, and there I was following a young lady in my car! She waved at the officers and continued down the road. After about one hundred yards. the lady turned to her right and went down a pathway. Shortly thereafter, she stopped, pointed toward the cemeteriy's b ordering fence and saiod, "There itd isI thanked her profusely and got out of my vehicle. There was Flannery's grave, along side that of her mother Regina, and her dad, Edward. It was a very sad but peaceful setting. As was Flannery's wont, she did not want any special recognitioin on her grave site, ergo, there was none. Her grave was identified just the same as other graves in the vicinity. I think it would be very difficult to find her grave without someone pointing it out as my young lady did. I am very grateful to her for her help.

Large, clean, well maintained and easy access. I do not ever get to visit but I would drive by often, I need to stop in and see my grandmother, they did get the headstone put up quickly!

For you cemetery sight-seers out there Memory Hill in Milledgeville is an excellent place with lots of history. Graves include those of American Revolution, Civil War, and WWI/WWII vets as well as other wars. There are graves for slaves from the slavery period. A couple of "witches" are buried there. It is just full of history. Contact the dept of tourism when you are in town for a ride on the trolley and guided tour.