It includes the original cemetery for white people (now known as Laurel Grove North) and a companion burial ground (called Laurel Grove South) that was reserved for slaves and free people of color.

The original cemetery has countless graves of many of Savannah's Confederate veterans of the American Civil War.

The lawyer and poet Henry Rootes Jackson delivered the dedication address.

[5] With lush plantings and beautifully carved stones, both sections of Laurel Grove Cemetery resemble more famous Victorian-era graveyards such as Green-Wood in New York City and Père Lachaise in Paris.

Administrators of Laurel Grove have recently begun an ambitious plan to computerize the cemetery's burial records.