By Ashley Quinn
It has been a full year since Middle Georgia Preservation Alliance began its Cemetery Assessment Survey. We have visited graveyards in all 23 counties documenting the overall condition of graveyards and grave marker types and conditions.
Box grave markers can be found throughout the Middle Georgia area. They are typically constructed of brick, marble, poured concrete slabs, or quarried granite. Brick box grave markers have been documented in Monroe, Crawford, and Baldwin Counties. Poured concrete box grave markers have been found in many counties like Jasper and Laurens. Those constructed of slabs or quarried granite blocks and slabs can be found in Pike, Putnam, Jasper, and Jones Counties. Box grave markers made of marble (like that shown in the photo from Spalding County) are the most common and can be found in many city cemeteries.
In Upson County a very different and interesting type of box grave marker can be found. So far, Upson County is the only MGPA county that these markers have been documented and thus we have named them "Southern Upland Folk Box Graves". They are unique in that they are hand made using field stones or non-professionally shaped granite-gneiss-schist igneous and metamorphic rocks that outcrop in Upson County as shown on the Geologic Map of Georgia.
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