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South-View Cemetery is a historic African-American-founded cemetery located approximately 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Georgia. An active operational cemetery on over 100 acres of land, it is the oldest African-American cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia and the oldest African-American “non eleemosynary” corporation in the country ...
Learn how former slaves and their descendants founded South-View Cemetery in 1886 as a dignified burial place for their loved ones. Discover the notable African Americans who are buried at South-View, such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Benjamin Mays.
Learn about the history and significance of South-View Cemetery, the oldest African American controlled burial ground in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1886 by six former slaves and their allies, it is a place of dignity, beauty, and community for over 80,000 people.
South-View Cemetery is the oldest African-American Not-For Profit Corporation in the country and the final resting place for over 70,000 African Americans. Many well known Atlantans are buried in Historic South-View dating back to 1886. South-View Cemetery is located about 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta.
Southview Cemetery is a cemetery in Augusta, Georgia in an area known as "The Avenues". The area became a 15-acre-wide (6.1 ha) cemetery in the 1910s. [1] History. As other cemeteries were at maximum capacity, and were being closed by the city, [2] the need of more space for burials was desperately needed.
About Us. South-View Cemetery is conveniently located about 15 minutes south of Downtown Atlanta in the Historic Lakewood Heights area of the city. We are just off of I-85, north of Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and south of the Braves current stadium. The cemetery is also easily accessible from I-285 via the Jonesboro Road exit and connects well ...
Sunday : 9:00am - 5:00pm. Map View. South-View Cemetery was founded in 1886 by formerly enslaved African Americans who protested the treatment they received at Atlanta's segregated cemeteries. Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. and his wife Alberta Williams King are interred in a marble crypt at South-View.
