> Cemetery: Hornsby Cemetery

> Other:

> Sign: Yes

> Street: On Washington Rd. between Barksdale dr. and Jackson Drive

> but on opposite side of washing that these two streets are on.

> City: East Point

> Township: East Point

> County: Fulton

> State: Georgia

> Zip: 30344

> lat_ns: N

> lat_h:

> lat_mmss:

> long_ew: W

> long_h:

> long_mmss:

> Status: Abandoned

> Size: Small

> Directions: Washington Rd. Nea Jackson Drive Baptist Church on same

> side of road. in between a Barber abd a duplex, duplex faces Chataeu st in

> the direction of Washington Plaza shopping center. Cemetery behind the

> backyard of duplex.

> Type: Road-public

> Location: Urban

> Terrain: Hillside

> Watersource: No

> Features:

> Property: Private

> Access: Open

> Enclosure: Fence

> Gate: Non-locking

> Established: 1863

> Gravestones: 1

> Oldest: May 25, 1863

> Newest: Dec. 20, 1875

> Removed: No

> Relocated: No

> Repairs: No

> Methods:

> Restoration: No

> Association: No

> Records: No

> Inventory: Yes

> Availability: Atlanta Historian, Franklin Garrett

> Landscaping: No

> Paths: No

> Trees: No

> Crypts: No

> Fencing: Yes

> Brickwork: No

> Ironwork: Yes

> Sculpture: No

> Fountains: No

> Roads: No

> Buildings: No

> Cement:

> Granite:

> Marble: Yes

> Native:

> Slate:

> Others:

> Wood:

> Materials:

> Architectural: No

> Angels: No

> Draperies: No

> Fraternal: No

> Hands: No

> Lambs: No

> Monograms: No

> Plants: No

> Photos: No

> Religious: No

> Scrollwork: No

> Urns: No

> Carvings: Yes

> Condition: Cemetery in danger of destruction

> Unmarked: Yes

> Broken: No

> Toppled: No

> Disintegrating: Yes

> Buried: No

> Weather: Unknown

> Pollution: Yes

> Vandalized: No

> Report:

> VA1:

> VA2:

> VA3:

> VA4:

> VA5:

> Overgrowth:

> Overgrowth1:

> Overgrowth2:

> Overgrowth3: Gravestones-Disturbing

> Overgrowth4:

> GroundCover: Yes

> Moss: Yes

> Vines: Yes

> Drainage: Problem-Seasonal

> Problem1: Encroachment

> Problem2: Apathy

> Owner: Private

> Use:

> Bordering: Commercial

> Change: Smaller

> Reason: Commercial

> Visited: Rarely

> Archeology: No

> Habitat: Yes

> Contacted: East Point City Council.

> Name: Steven Bramlett

> Email: eastpointgraves@bellsouth.net

> Date: 10-26-05

> > Surnames:

> > Hornsby.

> > Other_Information:

> > A pioneer cemetery. 2 burials marked by one obelisk stone. This stone

> surrounded by a wrought iron fence just large enought to enclose the two

> graves belonging to the stone.

> > > A chainlinked fence surounds the whole of the small cemetery with more

> unmarked burials outside of the small wrought iron enclosure but inside of

> the chainlinked fence. The unmarked graves are highly suspected to be

> slave burials.

> > > This small strip of land that the cemetery sits on is zoned as commercial.

> >

Support:

> > East Point Heritage Foundation.

> email: eastpointgraves@bellsouth.net

> http://www.geocities.com/eastpointcemeteries/heritage.html >

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