{"nrhp_refnum":"11001054","name":"Oak Hill Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"96 Jefferson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newnan","county":"Coweta County","state":"GA","lat":33.38587230200005,"lon":-84.79832435253905,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2012-01-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Oak Hill Cemetery is a 62-acre historic cemetery on a hill about half a mile north of downtown Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia. It began as private burial grounds in 1828, and the city acquired it in 1833.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a good example of a 19th-century cemetery in continuous use since 1828, with decorative funerary monuments, statuary and ornamental fencing (Criterion C, art). It is also tied to Newnan's early planning and development (Criterion A), since the town set aside a community cemetery early on. Many civic leaders, two Georgia governors and 270 Confederate soldiers are buried there.","narrative":"Oak Hill Cemetery occupies 62 acres on a hill just north of downtown Newnan, Georgia. It started in 1828 as private burial grounds belonging to local churches and individuals, and the city bought it in 1833, laying out a grid of sections much like the downtown streets. Later additions came in 1840, 1950, 1977 and 2000. Roughly 6,000 known burials include prominent families, two Georgia governors, William Yates Atkinson and Ellis Gibbs Arnall, and a section of 270 Confederate soldiers, many of whom died in Newnan hospitals or at the Battle of Brown's Mill. The grounds hold obelisks, angels, urns, cast-iron family plot fences, and the Cole family marble mausoleum, made from Italian and Pickens County marble and Elbert County granite. Cedars and oaks, many planted in the 1940s, shade the grounds. The cemetery was listed for its funerary art and for its link to the town's early growth, and it is still in use today.","period_of_significance":"1828-1961","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Remains in active use as a cemetery; it retains a high degree of integrity, though some markers are in poor condition.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.491362-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/11001054.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207679","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/coweta-county/oak-hill-cemetery-11001054/"}