Jackson Street Cemetery

Jackson Street Cemetery, also known as the Old Athens Cemetery, is the city's oldest burial ground, established around 1801 on land later given to Athens by the University of Georgia's trustees and now surrounded by the UGA campus. Used chiefly between about 1810 and 1856, its roughly 800 graves on some two and a half acres include merchants, ministers, children of faculty, and two early university presidents, Robert Finley and Moses Waddel, as well as men, women, and children of African descent buried on adjacent ground. The cemetery fell out of regular use after Oconee Hill Cemetery opened in 1855, saw its last known burial in 1898, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Jackson Street Cemetery is a cemetery in Athens, Athens-Clarke County. It is one of 28 cemeteries documented in Athens-Clarke County, among 141 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 33.9543, -83.3724 near Athens. The nearest cataloged historic site is Old Athens Cemetery (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include United States Navy Pre-Flight School, Petroglyphic Boulders, and In Memory of Unknown Enslaved Individuals.

This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.