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Begun with the town in 1758, this burying ground holds early Georgians whose stones were mostly lost before the 1870s, including Sunbury Academy's longtime principal William McWhir; today it is nearly all that survives of the vanished port.
Sunbury Cemetery is a historical marker in Sunbury, Liberty County, erected in 1957. It is one of 51 historical markers documented in Liberty County, among 81 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.7697, -81.2839 near Sunbury. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Old Sunbury Road (historical marker), about 0.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Sunbury, Saint John's Lodge Number Six, and The Dead Town Of Sunbury.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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