Memorial Hill Cemetery

Memorial Hill Cemetery is located at West Franklin Street in Milledgeville, Georgia, which is about a two hour drive from Atlanta. The cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was until 1945 known as the Milledgeville City Cemetery. As well as having a vast number of graves of people from very diverse backgrounds, the site is noted for its botanical interest too.

Among the people buried here are various legislators and statesmen from across Georgia, since Milledgeville was the state capital for a few years. Other notable people buried here include the writer, Flannery O'Connor, statesman Carl Vinson and one of the last Western outlaws, Bill Miner. There are also a large number of "slave" graves here as well as those of patient's of Milledgeville's "Lunatic Asylum".

Memorial Hill has many trees including cedars, red berries, magnolias, pines and oaks as well as many types of shrubs and smaller trees. Whilst in Milledgeville, visitors may also like to visit other places of interest such as the Flannery O'Connor Memorial Room at Georgia State University. There are several eateries near the cemetery too including Barberitos and Aubri Lanes Restaurant less than half a mile away.