Pleasant Hill Cemetery at Paces
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
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Atlanta, Georgia, 30327 USACoordinates: 33.85387, -84.43815 - pleasanthillpacescemetery.com
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This historic cemetery began a new chapter of its existence in early 2024. The Paces Ferry United Methodist Church adjacent to it closed, but the cemetery continues with a non-profit 501 (c)(13) cemetery association operated by a board of directors.
Land for the church was deeded to the founding church trustees in 1877 by William "Billy" Brown, a local farmer who lived across what is now Paces Ferry Road from the church. The church building was also the home in the 1890's of Pleasant Hill school. Ida Williams, a local educational pioneer, and namesake of an Atlanta library was the first teacher there.
Mr. Brown (1831-1897) was the third person to be buried in the cemetery. The first burial was that of two-year-old Fannie Mae English (1894-1896). Brown is one of eleven veterans buried here. These men served from the time of the Confederacy through the Viet Nam Era. The cemetery participates in the world-wide Wreaths Across America ceremony each third Saturday in December at noon.
A mortuary archeological survey in 2020 determined there are 183 interment sites within the cemetery. Nineteen of these were discovered by the survey team and are unmarked. Wooden slabs were then placed at the head and foot of each unmarked grave.
Notice the tree in front of the former church site adjacent to the cemetery. In 2020 ISA Board Certified Arborist Chris Hastings and Maegen Rochner, PhD, University of Kentucky, Louisville, did a dendrochronology study on the Post Oak Quercus stellate tree. Their research dated the tree to 1730, +/- 10 years, making it the oldest documented tree in Atlanta, predating the American Revolution by some 40 years. The tree is noted on a survey done following the signing of the Indian Treaty of 1821 which passed land to the United States. Another Post Oak which dates to 1890 +/- 10 years stands at the edge of the Cemetery near the tree with the sign "Pleasant Hill."
This historic cemetery began a new chapter of its existence in early 2024. The Paces Ferry United Methodist Church adjacent to it closed, but the cemetery continues with a non-profit 501 (c)(13) cemetery association operated by a board of directors.
Land for the church was deeded to the founding church trustees in 1877 by William "Billy" Brown, a local farmer who lived across what is now Paces Ferry Road from the church. The church building was also the home in the 1890's of Pleasant Hill school. Ida Williams, a local educational pioneer, and namesake of an Atlanta library was the first teacher there.
Mr. Brown (1831-1897) was the third person to be buried in the cemetery. The first burial was that of two-year-old Fannie Mae English (1894-1896). Brown is one of eleven veterans buried here. These men served from the time of the Confederacy through the Viet Nam Era. The cemetery participates in the world-wide Wreaths Across America ceremony each third Saturday in December at noon.
A mortuary archeological survey in 2020 determined there are 183 interment sites within the cemetery. Nineteen of these were discovered by the survey team and are unmarked. Wooden slabs were then placed at the head and foot of each unmarked grave.
Notice the tree in front of the former church site adjacent to the cemetery. In 2020 ISA Board Certified Arborist Chris Hastings and Maegen Rochner, PhD, University of Kentucky, Louisville, did a dendrochronology study on the Post Oak Quercus stellate tree. Their research dated the tree to 1730, +/- 10 years, making it the oldest documented tree in Atlanta, predating the American Revolution by some 40 years. The tree is noted on a survey done following the signing of the Indian Treaty of 1821 which passed land to the United States. Another Post Oak which dates to 1890 +/- 10 years stands at the edge of the Cemetery near the tree with the sign "Pleasant Hill."
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- Added: 30 Jan 2013
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2482374
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