{"nrhp_refnum":"05000428","name":"Cumming Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Bordered by GA 20, GA 9 and Resthaven Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cumming","county":"Forsyth County","state":"GA","lat":34.20513427700007,"lon":-84.13779995199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-05-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Cumming Cemetery is a municipal burial ground set on a hill called Moody Hill beside downtown Cumming, the seat of Forsyth County, Georgia. Forsyth County established it in 1834, the year the city was chartered.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a good, intact example of a small-town Georgia city cemetery with features of Victorian-era rural cemeteries, including its elevated location, landscape and funerary art. It differs from many cemeteries of its time because it was set aside by the county for public use rather than run by a private association. It also holds the graves of many early civic leaders and founding families, and it serves as a historical record because city and church records were lost.","narrative":"Cumming Cemetery is the city burial ground of Cumming, Georgia, laid out on a gently sloping hill beside the downtown square. Forsyth County set the land aside for public use in 1834, the same year the town was chartered, and early burials were tied to nearby Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist congregations. About 663 graves are marked, with simple slabs, headstones and obelisks carrying Christian imagery such as crosses, lambs, doves and urns. Many monuments were produced by marble workers in Tate, Marble Hill and Ball Ground. There are no roads or paths, and burials followed family plots rather than a formal design. Prominent families, including the Willinghams, Baileys, Fosters and Estes, placed their costly monuments on the highest ground. The cemetery was listed for its landscape character and its funerary art, and for the graves of early county leaders, merchants, physicians and legislators. A stone wall and iron fence added in 1999 is the only noncontributing feature.","period_of_significance":"1834-1954","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a cemetery; a rock retaining wall with an iron fence was added in 1999, along with restoration of fallen markers.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.03412-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/05000428.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208023","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/forsyth-county/cumming-cemetery-05000428/"}