Oak Ridge Cemetery Historical

Oak Ridge Cemetery Historical (HM1Y3Z)

Location: Macon, GA 31201 Bibb County
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N 32° 50.917', W 83° 38.1968'

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1840 to 1865

Macon native Simri Rose, for whom Rose Hill Cemetery is named, established these grounds in 1840. Rose set aside ten acres of the property for slave owners to purchase and bury enslaved people and to bury city-owned enslaved people. On September 12, 1851, the city officially established this land as Oak Ridge Cemetery almost ten years before the beginning of the Civil War.

Because this cemetery was city-owned, the sexton was required to make reports to the governing body. Early on, the clerk recording these reports designated the race of those buried at Rose Hill by a "W" for white and "colored" for African Americans.

Later, the clerk might not have always designated race, but he did list the location of the burial. Those buried in Oak Ridge were typically African American.

These municipal records set Oak Ridge apart from contemporary slave burial grounds in other parts of Georgia. While those cemeteries have burial records of enslaved people, that documentation is not part of the official government archives The City Council records show the number of monthly burials in Oak Ridge during most of the antebellum and Civil War years, but most of the names of these individuals were not recorded.

Of the 961 known burials in Oak Ridge from 1840 to 1865, only two names were recorded. "A free man of
color Hannibal Roe" was buried in 1846 and "Essex," who was mentioned because his body was allegedly disinterred by local medical students in 1858. Although Hannibal Roe's burial in Oak Ridge makes it clear that not all those buried here were enslaved people, we know from population statistics for Macon that most African Amerians during that period were enslaved.

It is believed there are at least 1,000 formerly enslaved people buried in unmarked graves at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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Date Added Monday, May 1st, 2017 at 9:01pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)44S E 746757 N 3637585
Decimal Degrees32.84861667, -83.63661374
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 32° 50.917', W 83° 38.1968'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds32° 50' 55.0200" N, 83° 38' 11.8095" W
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Area Code(s)478, 912
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling South
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 60 Madison St, Macon GA 31201, US
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