Sunday, February 14, 2016

Cedar Lane Cemetery in Milledgeville GA


Some of the 2,000 iron markers retrieved and installed as a memorial in Cedar Lane Cemetery in Baldwin County, GA Inscription on marker at cemetery.... In 1997 a cemetery restoration began here that triggered a movement to memorialize patients buried at state psychiatric hospitals nationwide. After discovering nearby neglected cemeteries interred some 25,000 people, members of the Georgia Consumer Council pledged to restore the burial grounds and build a memorial. A grassroots campaign raised funds to erect the adjacent gate and display 2,000 numbered iron markers displaced from graves over the years. A life-size bronze angel was placed 175 yards south of here to serve as a perpetual guardian.
Kenneth James Bryson

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