- Laurel Grove North Cemetery - Before feminism was even a concept, Savannah women were leading fascinating, daring lives of creativity and innovation that influenced and sometimes shook the world! Yet like so many accomplishments of women in The South, they either made the history pages or went lost to them. Its uncanny that so many of these fabulous women ended up in one Savannah cemetery!
Juliette Gordon-Low, Founder of The Girl Scouts of The USA
Florence Martus, aka, “The Waving Girl”
Nina Pape, Educator & Founder of The Pape School
Eugenia Phillips, Banished Civil War Spy
Mary Marshall, Philanthropist & Builder
Phoebe Pember, Famed Civil War Nurse
Mary Haskell, Benefactress Muse to Poet-Painter Kahlil Gibran
Tour discussions will also include the many roles of women in Victorian Society, the very particular traditions around funerals, along with social organizations like The Order of The Eastern Star, The Daughters of Rebekkah and other women’s movements.
- Access to Laurel Grove Cemetery
- Guided tour
- Bathrooms
This is the sole Women’s History Tour in Savannah, led within the confines of the only authentic Victorian graveyard in the city. Here lay the most vibrant, dauntless, and prominent females of the 1800s. Figures include Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, Florence Martus, colloquially known as “The Waving Girl,” Phoebe Pember, a Jewish nurse during the Civil War, and Mrs. Mary Haskell-Minis, the beneficent muse of poet-artist Kahlil Gibran. It’s quite extraordinary how so many women of influence are gathered in a single cemetery!
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