Our storyists will tour you through Savannah'a oldest extant cemetery narrating the lives of the characters and other nearby highlights such as The Old City Jail, Conrad Aiken Birthplace, Negro Burial Ground, Henry Ford Fire Dept and more.
Taking a Viator tour provided the history of the site that a self guided tour would not have provided. I highly recommend booking with Viator, Mike was a great guide with lots of historical information.
Lazarus Bone was our tour guide through Colonial Park Cemetery and he was marvelous. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed our experience going through the cemetery and learning so much. It was very obvious that Mr. Bone is passionate about the history of Savannah and sharing it with those who's paths he crosses. We had a wonderful time and we highly recommend this tour. Hopefully Lazarus is risen and is able to be your guide as well.
Ken did a wonderful job of combining Savanna history with the graves and placards we were seeing within this old cemetery. A very nice tour.
Paschal was a fantastic guide and provided so much great and unexpected information about the Savannah area. Highly recommend!!
We had Kenneth as our tour guide, he was so amazing! Very knowledgeable and patient with all of our questions. Would recommend him as your tour guide for any of the Shannon Scott Tours. We ended up having just our small group on the tour and that was really nice.
We had a great tour of the cemetary with Janine! Great experience and look forward to coming back again for another tour!
Lauren was a fantastic host for our tour. She was very knowledgeable about Savannah and it's history. We had a blast listening to her accounts of the people and their life stories that have shaped Savannah over the past few hundred years. This tour was definitely a highlight of our trip to Savannah!
Would give this ten stars if possible. Loved this tour and Chase (Lazarus). I was the only person on the tour and it turned out to be a stroke of luck. You can tell that Chase enjoys the tour, and we spent the entire time in conversation about the cemetery, the people buried, and history. I so enjoyed the time I spent on the tour and would not hesitate to take it again. It was that good. I was fortunate to do the tour after having been to the Savannah history museum where I learned a great deal about the battle of Savannah. That greatly added to my enjoyment of the Colonial Park tour as I had a frame of reference. Chase was happy to answer questions and to explore some of the graves that may not have been part of the official tour. I only wish that we had more time together. If you are at all interested in cemeteries, history, or a little Savannah scandal, then definitely sign up for this tour.
After such a great experience touring with this company before, my friends and I jumped on the chance to explore Colonial Park Cemetery when we saw the tour come up with Shannon Scott. We got a second treat to find our guide, Lazarus Boone, had also been our guide for a ghost tour previously, and what can I say except that he is phenomenal! Lazarus does not merely tour you through the cemetery - it's a full blown performance that keeps your attention the whole way through. He's a bit mysterious as well which adds another layer to the tour because it seems like he stepped right out of the past. The tour itself was chock full of historical facts and amazing stories, set in the oldest cemetery in Savannah. Colonial Park is beautiful and has so much history in it. We've visited this cemetery many times before, but Lazarus Boone made it a completely new experience, and we were thankful to have such a knowledgeable and inspiring guide.
Nestled in the heart of Historic Downtown Savannah, this cemetery offers a peek into the lives of Savannah’s earliest residents and those who helped build our country. It was the city’s main cemetery from 1750 to 1853, until it became overcrowded, and today, it is a perfectly picturesque park and sacred, quiet space for reflection. If you set out on a walk through historic downtown, be sure to pass through this little, 6 acre time capsule, brimming with history. It’s so peaceful. And if you can, make time to book a tour with Shannon Scott Tours. No tour company in Savannah (or elsewhere) knows cemeteries better, and no other sites in Savannah offer quite as rich, layered and fascinating stories as cemeteries. Shannon is the real, local expert and master storyteller, and he trains his guides to be the best. You will be spoiled with an invaluable and memorable experience.
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