Bull Street Cemetery

rdf:langString Bull Street Cemetery

rdf:langString Bull Street Cemetery

rdf:langString circa 1820

rdf:langString United States

rdf:langString Savannah, Georgia, U.S.

rdf:langString Bull Street at West Oglethorpe Avenue

rdf:langString USA Georgia#USA

rdf:langString Bull Street Cemetery was a Jewish cemetery established in Savannah, Province of Georgia, in 1733. Today, a memorial in the median of West Oglethorpe Avenue at Bull Street, erected in 1983 by the trustees of the Mordecai Sheftall Cemetery, marks the former location of the cemetery, which contained around twenty graves when it was built over around a century after it opened. The memorial says: "Original 1733 burial plot allotted by James Edward Oglethorpe to the Savannah Jewish Community." On November 3, 1761, George III "conveyed a certain half lot of land in Holland Tything, Percival Ward, to David Truan." This land was at the northwest corner of today's Bull Street and Oglethorpe Avenue. Several Jews were interred here before the family cemeteries were established. To honor the services of Benjamin Sheftall, one of the original forty or so Jews who arrived in Savannah on July 11, 1733, South Broad Street (as Oglethorpe Avenue was originally known) was extended to include within its bounds the unmarked burial of Sheftall's mother. The burial ground was closed in the first half of the 19th century, with some of the headstones that would otherwise have been discarded used as doorsteps at homes in the neighborhood.

rdf:langString Approximately 20