Watkinsville City Cemetery

The Watkinsville Cemetery is one of the oldest in Oconee County with graves dating back two centuries. The earliest dated grave is 1811. It was the site of the first Methodist Church in Watkinsville. The meeting house that once set upon this land burned circa 1830 but the cemetery continued as the city cemetery. Many prominent family names in Oconee County can be found in this cemetery as well as Veteran’s graves from almost every war.