PLOT SUMMARY: This one-acre cemetery between the Euharlee Presbyterian and Euharlee Baptist Churches was used for the burial of enslaved residents before the Civil War. It remained a burial ground for African Americans in Euharlee through the early 20th Century. By the 1990s, the cemetery was overgrown and nearly forgotten. Most of the graves were originally unmarked, and only three people out of the 300+ buried here have been identified thus far.
Representing where Native American and European cultures met, Fort King George is the oldest English fort remaining on Georgia’s coast. Originally built in 1721, the fort was