Pendleton King Park

Georgia · USA · Cemetery

A brick walled family cemetery in Augusta, and a camellia that bloomed when someone was about to die.

Pendleton King Park in Augusta was the Bugg plantation before it was anything else. Judge John P. King bought the land before 1842, and after his son Henry died the property came to the city as a park named in the son's memory. The small cemetery inside the brick wall belongs to the Bugg family, who were here first, and it stayed where it was while everything around it became lawns and walking paths.

The figure people report is white and quick. It moves in and out of the trees that ring the walled plot, and in and out of the enclosure itself, and the accounts agree that it does not stay still long enough to be looked at properly. It has been described here for a very long time by people with no connection to one another.

The better story belongs to a camellia. A bush grew beside the old mansion, which has since burned, and the family held that when it flowered heavily and out of season it was announcing a death in the King household. Omens of this kind attach themselves to plantation families across the South, and they are worth thinking about for what they are: a household that owned people, telling itself that the land took an interest in when its own would die. The mansion is gone. The cemetery, the wall and the trees are still there, and the park is open and free.

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Hvor ligger Pendleton King Park?

Pendleton King Park ligger i Georgia, USA.