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The Drunken Farmer Still Rides

Oconee Hill Cemetery at 297 Cemetery Street in Athens, Georgia, is a beautiful and historic resting place. But this cemetery is a little different from the rest we have covered at The Lantern, like Hell’s Gate in Spartanburg. By 1896, all the lots were whole, so the city expanded the scenic cemetery by eighty-two acres…