Tickets for the 2025 Life in the Cemetery Tour are on sale now! You can purchase tickets at this link:
https://events.cobbcountytix.com/events/life-in-the-cemetery-tour-2025
As the Fall approaches, the Kennesaw City Cemetery comes to life.
The 'Life in the Cemetery' Tour is an annual guided historical walking tour. This fundraising event is sponsored by the Kennesaw Cemetery Preservation Foundation, a 501(c)3, dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the city's cemetery. The event is co-sponsored by the City of Kennesaw Cemetery Preservation Commission. This year's tour will be held the weekend before Halloween, Friday, October 23rd thru Sunday, October 25th. Tickets will go on sale September 1, 2025.
During this year's event, attendees will be introduced to cemetery residents who "put Kennesaw on the map." Names like Lewis Street, Watts Drive, Burrell Court, Chalker Elementary, Summers Street, Jiles Road, and Adams Park are very familiar, but do you know the origins of these place names? The residents of the cemetery featured on this year's tour are connected to the local individuals whose names we pass by every day, but do not often know who they were.
This one-hour walking tour, where the last tour each day is after dark, covers a variety of uneven surfaces. These include dirt, grass and grass hills, asphalt and/or gravel roads. Attendees will be required to navigate around headstones and small walls surrounding some family plots. This tour is not recommended for those with wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, mobility or balance challenges. (An online tour is available at kennesawcemetery.org.) Pets are not allowed in the cemetery at any time.
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