Tybee Memorial Cemetery (2005)

Tybee's only cemetery, this plot was set aside in the 1870s to bury shipwreck and drowning victims washed ashore; the town inventoried just a handful of graves before quietly closing it.

Tybee Memorial Cemetery is a historical marker in Tybee Island, Chatham County, erected in 2005. It is one of 339 historical markers documented in Chatham County, among 480 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 32.0085, -80.8444 near Tybee Island. The nearest cataloged historic site is Tybee Memorial Cemetery (cemetery), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include City Hall - 1940, Morgan--Ille Cottage, and Abrahams, Edmund and Mildred, Raised Tybee Cottage.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.