2 hours (approx.)
Daily Tour
15 people
English
Although Savannah has multiple spooky cemeteries to visit, this Savannah Laurel Grove Cemetery Daytime Tour takes you into the cemetery (dating back to 1853) during the morning. A daytime tour allows those who get spooked out more easily to still enjoy the history and fun tales the cemetery has to offer. Plus, a guide knows the fast-track way around the 67-acre (27-hectare) cemetery.
Guides conduct the narrated tour through the 1853 cemetery, taking guests around the multiple mausoleum crypts, gravesites, ironwork, statues, Civil War sections, Freemasons, visits include the burial sites of Girl Scout’s Founder Juliette Low, The Waving Girl, James Pierpont, Mary Marshall, Henry Willink, Mary Haskell-Minis and others. Topics include Victorian funerary rites, laws, burial traditions, symbolism, sculpture, Civil War, Revolutionary War, Women’s History, Literary History, etc.
2 hours • Admission Ticket Included