[2] It stands on the site of the former Greenwich Plantation and became an addition to Bonaventure Cemetery (itself on the former grounds of Bonaventure Plantation) in 1933,[3] and it is the newest of the city's four municipal cemeteries.

In 1896, long after Greenwich Plantation was demolished, naval stores magnate Spencer P. Shotter purchased the land and built a Beaux-Arts mansion and extensive gardens.

They remained stored until 1965, at which point they were loaned to Savannah's Telfair Museums.

[5] In 2020, the city approved the sale of sixteen of the statues,[7] with a collective price tag of $400,000.

[8] A 3.5-acre section of the cemetery has been made into a passive park or meditation area for visitors.