Just got this from the Washington Memorial Library....they are so very helpful. =========== Fort Hill Cemetery is actually a collection of four cemeteries adjoining one another to form an irregular shape resembling two rectangles crossing each other in an "+" pattern but with one leg of the "+" broken off and moved to the end of the other rectangle's side. More like : _____ I I (Hope this diagram survives the transmission). At any rate the cemeteries are bounded by Bowman, Hall, Short,, Cowan, Norris, Mitchell, Schaeffer, Williams, and Kitchens. Kitchens, Short, Hall, and Mitchell each dead end in a corner of the cemetery after having each formed a boundary of the cemetery. The oldest of the four cemeteries was the burial ground for Fort Hawkins, established in 1806 as a trading post with the Creek Indians. The fort sat on a hill on the east side of the Ocmulgee River near the ancient Indian town of Ocmulgee and was named for U.S. Indian Agent, Benjamin Hawkins. A large rectangular fort of wood with two blockhouses positioned diagonally from one another at two of the corners of the fort, all that remains is actually a reconstruction of one of the blockhouses, although plans are afoot to reconstruct more of the fort. (This has been made possible since Fort Hawkins School, which sat on the site of the fort has been closed and razed). In the oldest part of the cemetery, whites, blacks, and possibly Indians--who had lived among the whites-- are buried. One of the cemeteries within that known as Fort Hill Cemetery is a white cemetery and two of the cemeteries are black cemeteries. Some families still have spaces in their plots and burials still occur there, although the neighborhood is not the most desirable. We do not recommend anyone going over there alone, even during the day. Virginia Crilley