Banks County Cemeteries


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Cemetery Name

 Location

 Additional Information

Antioch Holiness Church Cemetery

 Antioch Road 8 Miles West of Homer on State Highway 51 West (Homer/Lula Highway)

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Banks County Memorial Gardens Athens Street in Homer .
Beaverdam Baptist Church Cemetery 3.1 miles East of Commerce and US 441 By-Pass on State Highway 59 (Carnesville/Commerce Highway) .
Bethany Christian Church Cemetery Located on US 441, 2 Miles North of Homer, Banks County, Georgia Personally canvassed this Cemetery, March 2000.
Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery Located on Bellamy Road. Travel 3.8 miles North on the Homer/Yonah Road to Bellamy Road and thereafter 1.3 miles to the Church or 3.2 miles on Samples/Scales Road from U.S. 441 to Bellamy Road. The Church is about 200 yards from intersection of Bellamy and Samples/Scales Road .
Broad River Baptist Church Cemetery Located on Broad River Road from State Highway 105, which is reachable by traveling North on US 441 (from Homer) to and beyond Hollingsworth. Broad River Road is just before the Broad River bridge. Sign for the Church is on State Highway 105 .
John Chambers Cemetery Homer, GA. .
Damascus Baptist Church Cemetery Located in the Northeast section of Banks County. Three routes may be utilized; however, the easiest is to travel .5 miles from Homer on US 441, turn onto State Highway 51 East for 2.8 miles, turn onto Damascus Road for a distance of 4.7 miles (must pass through intersection of state Highway 198 and Damascus Road). A second route is to take State Highway 198 from Hollingsworth for a distance of 5.1 miles to intersection of Highway 198 and Damascus Road (four way stop), turn left onto Damascus Road for a distance of .5 miles. . .
Evans Family Cemetery located at 377 McClure Road. It is about 0ne-half mile after you cross over the railroad on the left of the road. Off Highway 52 near Gillsville, Ga. .
Riley/Bolton Cemetery located on Hwy 326 between Commerce GA and the Franklin Co line in Banks County. .
Small Cemeteries Combined . .
Woodcliff Cemetery If you go north on 365 turn right on Mud Creek Rd. - go until it deadends then turn left and go to the second street that crosses the railroad track and turn right across the track then take an immediate right on a dirt road a little ways down on the left is some marble steps that goes into the woods and some tombstones at the road. This according to a obit for Haley Master Brown is the Woodliff cemetery. .
Wynne/Wynn Family Cemetery Directions: From old U. S. 441 in Hollingsworth follow Wynn Lake Road to where is makes a 90 degree turn to the left. Do not turn but proceed straight ahead onto a single lane gravel road. Cemetery on hill on left. Ornate wrought iron gate is padlocked but there is space to walk inside to the cemetery with ease. Beautiful wrought iron arch over the main gate says “18-WYNNE- 04". Cemetery is meticulously kept. There is a marker close to the cemetery which says “Site of Martha Burns’ cabin”. One can see the remnant of the original chimney foundation. Approximately 20 small dark fieldstones in rows about 10 feet from the inscribed stones. Similar in size they bore no inscriptions.



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