Old Athens Cemetery

Old Athens Cemetery is a memorial in Clarke County, Georgia. Old Athens Cemetery is situated nearby to the obelisk Edward Lampkin, as well as near the university building Peabody Hall.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Jackson Street Cemetery and UGA Main Library.

Jackson Street Cemetery

Cemetery

Photo: Gwringle, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

UGA Main Library

Library

Photo: Coxonian, CC BY-SA 4.0.

UGA Main Library is situated 340 feet southwest of Old Athens Cemetery.

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 1,800 feet south of Old Athens Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Five Points.

Athens

Photo: Rob, CC BY 2.0.

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 Old Athens Cemetery.

Old Athens Cemetery

Type: Memorial
Category: historic site
Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.95472° or 33° 57′ 17″ north

Longitude

-83.37296° or 83° 22′ 23″ west

Open location code

865RXJ3G+VR

OpenStreetMap ID

node 11069765521

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Edward Lampkin and Peabody Hall.

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