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Prosperity Cemetery traces its beginnings to 1836 and grew up alongside a church congregation organized that same year on the Doraville-Chamblee line. A number of its earliest graves, from the founding era into the early 1900s, survive only as unmarked plots, while later headstones fill out the roughly 570 memorials recorded here.
Prosperity Cemetery is a cemetery in Chamblee, DeKalb County. It is one of 34 cemeteries documented in DeKalb County, among 143 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.8974, -84.2914 near Chamblee. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Rainey Plantation (historical marker), about 0.9 miles away. Others within a short drive include Greater Mount Carmel African Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery, 1941 ✯ Naval Air Station Atlanta ✯ 1959, and 1917 ✯ Camp Gordon ✯ 1919.
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Prosperity Cemetery traces its beginnings to 1836 and grew up alongside a church congregation organized that same year on the Doraville-Chamblee line. A number of its earliest graves, from the founding era into the early 1900s, survive only as unmarked plots, while later headstones fill out the roughly 570 memorials recorded here.
Sources: findagrave.com
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