Conger-Woods Cemetery

Conger-Woods Cemetery is a cemetery in Clarke County, Georgia. Conger-Woods Cemetery is situated nearby to the nature reserve Five Acre Woods, as well as near the neighborhood Normaltown.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tree That Owns Itself and Sanford Stadium.

Tree That Owns Itself

Photo: Boston Public Library, Public domain.

The Tree That Owns Itself is a white oak tree that, according to legend, has legal ownership of itself and of all land within eight feet of its base. Also known as the Jackson Oak, the tree is at the corner of South Finley and Dearing Streets in Athens, Georgia, US. Tree That Owns Itself is situated 2½ miles southwest of Conger-Woods Cemetery.

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 2½ miles south of Conger-Woods Cemetery.

Springfield Cemetery

Cemetery

Photo: LadyofShalott, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery was founded in 1882 as a cemetery for African Americans in the 216th general militia district, Athens, Georgia area. Nine acres in size, it contains an estimated 3,500, mostly unmarked, graves. Springfield Cemetery is situated 1 mile south of Conger-Woods Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Athens and Normaltown.

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.

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 3 miles southwest of Conger-Woods Cemetery.

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. Five Points is situated 3½ miles southwest of Conger-Woods Cemetery.

Conger-Woods Cemetery

Type: Cemetery
Category: burial
Location: Clarke County, Georgia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.98279° or 33° 58′ 58″ north

Longitude

-83.35701° or 83° 21′ 25″ west

Open location code

865RXJMV+45

OpenStreetMap ID

way 242760764

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

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