Jackson Street Cemetery
Jackson Street Cemetery, also known as Old Athens Cemetery, was the original cemetery for Athens, Georgia and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: heritage site in Athens, Georgia, USA
- Also known as: “Old Athens Cemetery”
- Address: 305 South Jackson Street, Athens, 30602
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sanford Stadium and UGA Main Library.
Sanford Stadium
Stadium
Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is the on-campus playing venue for football at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, United States. The 93,033-seat stadium is the ninth-largest American football stadium in the NCAA, and the 15th-largest such stadium in the world. Sanford Stadium is situated 1,700 feet south of Jackson Street Cemetery.
UGA Main Library
Library
Photo: Coxonian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
UGA Main Library is situated 450 feet west of Jackson Street Cemetery.
University of Georgia
University
The University of Georgia is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia, United States. Chartered in 1785, it is the first state-chartered public university in the United States. University of Georgia is situated 1 mile south of Jackson Street Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Athens and Five Points.
Athens
Athens is a vibrant college town of 127,000 people in the Classic Heartland region of Georgia. Athens is most popular in the late summer and fall when students, families of students or college football fans visit the University of Georgia.
Five Points
Neighborhood
Five Points is a retail corridor and neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, centered on the intersection of Milledge Avenue and Lumpkin Street. It occupies the South-Southwest edge of the University of Georgia campus.
Normaltown
Neighborhood
Normaltown is a neighborhood in Athens, Georgia, by the Athens Regional Medical Center and named for the State Normal School formerly located there. It was the first area of Athens to be wired for electricity after the completion of the Mitchell Bridge hydroelectric plant in 1896. Normaltown is situated 2 miles west of Jackson Street Cemetery.
Jackson Street Cemetery
- Categories: heritage site and burial
- Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.95447° or 33° 57′ 16″ northLongitude
-83.37236° or 83° 22′ 21″ westElevation
748 feet (228 metres)Operator
University of GeorgiaOpen location code
865RXJ3H+Q3OpenStreetMap ID
way 498689124OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryGeoNames ID
6690724Wikidata ID
Q6117403
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In Other Languages
“Jackson Street Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Hausa: “Kabari na titin Jackson”
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