Rose Hill Cemetery (Macon, Georgia)
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| Rose Hill Cemetery | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location: | Riverside Dr., Macon, Georgia |
| Coordinates: | 32°50′52″N 83°38′1″W / 32.84778°N 83.63361°WCoordinates: 32°50′52″N 83°38′1″W / 32.84778°N 83.63361°W |
| Built/Founded: | 1840 |
| Architect: | Rose,Simri |
| Governing body: | Local |
| Added to NRHP: | October 09, 1973 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 73000611[1] |
Rose Hill Cemetery is in Macon, Georgia, U.S. The cemetery opened in 1840. The cemetery was a hangout for the Allman Brothers Band during their early years. Several songs share their namesake with some of the interred. Slide guitarist from the Allman Brothers Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley are also interred here, side by side.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
[edit] Notable interments
- Howard Duane Allman
- Clifford Anderson
- Augustus Octavius Bacon
- Charles Lafayette Bartlett
- James Henderson Blount
- Peter Bracken, engineer of the Texas locomotive
- Alfred Holt Colquitt
- Harry Stillwell Edwards
- Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald, founder of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority
- Samuel Francis Gove
- Nathaniel Edwin Harris
- James Jackson - United States Representative from Georgia, a judge advocate in the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
- Henry Graybill Lamar
- John Basil Lamar
- Eugenius Aristides Nisbet
- Raymond Berry Oakley III
- Elizabeth Napier Reed - namesake of Allman Brothers song In Memory of Elizabeth Reed[2][3]
- J. Neel Reed
- George Washington Bonaparte Towns
[edit] References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
- ^ "Hittin' The Web with The Allman Brothers Band :: FAQ". Allmanbrothersband.com. http://www.allmanbrothersband.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=1#q30. Retrieved 2008-11-20.
- ^ Patterson, R. Gary (2004). Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-743-24423-0. pp. 42–43.
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