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ALTA VISTA CEMETERY
Alta Vista is a perpetual care cemetery. It has been in continuous operation for over 140 years. The Cemetery is well laid out with all grave sites being relatively close to a paved street making them easily accessible. Alta Vista is filled with historical and interesting graves and monuments. The cemetery allows above ground monuments on lots of two or more spaces.
Alta Vista Cemetery recently completed an expansion that should provide spaces for the next 20 years and still has land that has not been developed but can be converted into burial spaces as needed.
Alta Vista consists of about 75 developed acres. It consists of the original Cemetery, one private cemetery (The old Woodlawn Cemetery) and at least one family cemetery.
There are numerous graves and memorial markers of veterans of Revolutionary War and over 100 graves of Civil War Veterans, the most famous and most visited grave is that of Lt. General James Longstreet. Among the other famous buried in the Alta Vista Cemetery are two former Georgia Governors, one son of a former Georgia Governor, an astronaut, rocket scientist, former Mayors, Fire Chiefs, Sheriffs, Police Chiefs, and even a circus performer. There are also two Georgia counties named after men interred in Alta Vista.
In ground burial spaces range between $700 and $1100. Mausoleum crypt and niche spaces range in price from $3400 - $6000 and $600 - $1350, respectively.
Alta Vista Cemetery’s new mausoleum offers citizens a full range of burial options. In some cases it costs less to be interred in the mausoleum than in a ground space. Mausoleum or niche spaces are also the “typical” burial choice for some people who have moved to Gainesville from other parts of the United States or other countries.
The cemetery office is located at 521 Jones Street. You can enter the cemetery off Jesse Jewell Parkway during daylight hours.
Superintendent Vince Evans
P. O. Box 2496
Gainesville, GA 30503
Phone: 770-535-6883
Fax: 678-450-9119
cemetery@gainesville.org
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